From: kkirksey@world.std.com (Ken Kirksey)
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 94 17:29:46 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: GUT and P=NP
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I was reading Hawking's _Black Holes & Baby Universes_ and an interesting
question struck me:  If a Grand Unified Theory exists, would it not 
prove P=NP to be true?
 
My Armchair Cosmologist's (TM) reasoning goes something like this:  If
a GUT exists, and that GUT is proven to be true (making it the Grand
Unified Law, I suppose), any behaviour we believe to be non-deterministic
really isn't: it obeys the GUL.  So P=NP must be true, since NP is
an artifact our pre-GUL way of looking at things.
 
Am I way off base here?  Can anyone with more knowledge in this area
than I tell me if I'm right, wrong, or somewhere in between?  Many
thanks,
 
Ken
 
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Ken Kirksey            kkirksey@world.std.com            Mac Guru & Developer
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