The alien hypothesis?

[John Doe]

yes...mathematics is considered a  branch of the
sciences...I guess the old school label for it was
"Queen of the Sciences", whatever the fuck that
means..lol...and sure I can see why people would get
the impression it isn't "really" a science, but it
works the same way, except that it requires something
like internal consistency, rather than explicit
experiment to confirm it's postulations....that's
whereabouts String theory is right now; it is very
mathematically convincing ( though there are problems
- "anomalies" in the equations that have many
physicists skeptical, but that's ok; ya gotta have
skepticism in the mix )and almost "elegant", but it
cannot presently be tested via phsical experiments...

--- jporter <jp3214 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 
> On Oct 17, 2005, at 8:07 PM, John Doe wrote:
> 
> > Tell that to the mathematicians who worked on
> solving
> > the Fermat problem; tell them their enthusiasm,
> > obsession, passion was funded by the
> government...and
> > that all the time and energy they spent on trying
> to
> > solve the damn thing was subsidized by Uncle Sam
> for
> > military purposes....
> >
> 
> Was the proof of Fernat's Last Theorem science?
> 
> Seemed more like an exercise in pure mathematics
> to me, but I'm not a scientist.
> 
> jody
> 
> 



		
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