1+1=2 not true

**Ivo The Tukker** · October 04, 2011, 12:51 PM

My sociology teacher prooved 1+1=2 is not really true! We just assumed and agreed that it is true. What do you guys think about it?

**hellheaven1987** · October 04, 2011, 12:58 PM

1 matter particle + 1 anti-matter particle = 1 energy explosion.

**Mathias** · October 04, 2011, 12:59 PM

Show me the proof. I assume we are working in the ring of real numbers here? In that ring, it is true by the definition of the binary operation "+" and by the definition of our usual numbers (i.e. the real numbers).
I believe it was Bertrand Russel who proved that 1+1=2 by starting at the basis of all modern mathematics: Set theory. So I would like to see your sociology teachers proof. Sociologists are usually not mathematicians, so I have my doubts about the proof.

**Gordon Freynman** · October 04, 2011, 01:07 PM

This has trolling written all over it.

**Magicman2051** · October 04, 2011, 01:06 PM

Sociology? This is a forum for discussing science, not voodoo.

**Ivo The Tukker** · October 04, 2011, 01:16 PM

well, i will ask him friday.

**Col. Tartleton** · October 04, 2011, 01:19 PM

1+1=2
No amount of 1984 will actually change that. Humans being wrong does not actually change the laws of reason that govern mathematics.

If you have 1 thing and another 1 thing that's 2 things.

**Poach** · October 04, 2011, 01:39 PM

Unless Ivo wants to PM me a better attempt at a first post, perhaps with proof of this supposed mathematical revolution, we can consider this thread closed.