top | item 17167064

(no title)

PopePompous | 7 years ago

Many, many things are impossible. Try solving the halting problem, for example.

discuss

order

harel|7 years ago

Yes, many things are seemingly impossible to us at this time. They might not be to future us at another time. Future us might laugh at our impossibles like we look at the impossibles of humanity just 300 years ago.

PopePompous|7 years ago

There are things which are provably impossible. No amount of future cleverness will change that. It is, for example, impossible to find three nonzero positive integers A, B and C for which the cube of A plus the cube of B equals the cube of C.