Haldane's Law
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J. B. S. Haldane's statement that he suspected that "the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose"[1] is sometimes described as Haldane's Law[citation needed] although it is clearly a conjecture and not a law[2]. It should not be confused with Haldane's rule in biology.
Americans, who often use the word "queer" in a specialized way, often express this law as "the Universe is not only stranger than we imagine, but stranger than we can imagine."
[edit] Notes and References
- ^ Haldane, J.B.S., Possible Worlds: And Other Essays [1927], Chatto and Windus: London, 1932, reprint, p.286. Emphasis in the original.
- ^ however "Haldane's Conjecture" refers to something else entirely, see google search on Haldane's Conjecture
[edit] See also
- Bounded rationality
- Theory of Everything
- Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem
- Algorithmic Information Theory
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