So, what happened to that guy set to answer the twin-prime conjecture? :)

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If you recall, a poster here had created a thread showcasing his troubles with this conjecture (namely it asks to show whether or not there are finitely many primes there which differ numerically to each other just by a value of 2, as in 11 and 13, 17 and 19, etc).

Last he had posted he had been told to keep working on his approach, but then vanished (perhaps to not risk the proof be spilled to us omnivores, or maybe aliens or the NSA got to him).

Anyway, the topic is only in a facade about that poster, of course, cause a thread cannot be about another poster. I wanted to ask if anyone ever thinks of this conjecture or tried to work on it :)

It is mostly about the notion of the dyad (2), and its special place as a number, along with the monad (1) creating primes in the natural series, and of course infinity. Intuitively i suppose there are indeed infinite twin-primes, and likely steadily (in whatever way) diminishing in how common they are in the series.
 
his last login was that last post (october 2014) so I think it is safe to say he is not going to post here
 
I'm more curious what happened to the guy who set out to hike the Appalachian trail with a solar panel thing on his back, a couple years ago. As far as I know he went to start his hike, and was supposed to use his laptop to write updates, but we haven't heard a single thing since.
 
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