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- From: tycchow@riesz.mit.edu (Timothy Y. Chow)
- Subject: ZFC+~Con(ZFC)
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- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 00:07:26 GMT
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- Assuming ZFC is consistent, there are models of ZFC+~Con(ZFC). Are such
- models interesting? Have they been studied? Or to put it another way, are
- there any interesting consequences of assuming that ZFC is INconsistent?
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- Tim Chow tycchow@math.mit.edu
- Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs
- 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh
- only 1 1/2 tons. ---Popular Mechanics, March 1949
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