Interesting reference to the Halting problem - although I'm not sure that I agree with its applicability here, but that discussion might be a bit too theoretical for getbig.
Is your education in computer science and /or mathematics?
Sidenote: by the way, not all conceivable computing machines are subject to the Church-Turing thesis, so the Halting problem isn't necessarily undecidable.
Yes, I was assuming we're talking about turing complete machine, not oracle machine for instance. It wasn't a reference or any attempt to apply anything, it's totally different realm and has nothing to do with each other. It's just an analogy, showing that sometimes you just cannot solve the problem and attempts to solve it makes you fall into endless special cases.
When people think "astrophysics"/"physics" they assume it's group of douchebags trying to play gods. It's quite on the opposite. Ton of that theory is used later on by mankind. It's like in math when attempts to proof one theorem, even though in vain, produce very interesting results themselves. What I'm saying is that maybe we won't ever know origins of the universe but we can make our world better along the way using knowledge we gained.
