I just hit 156 followers today! Thanks errybody!!
(I don't really like posts like these because they don't give any valuable information to a person's followers and I'm starting to realize that if a platform like this is going to survive, it needs to promote content that has a REASON to exist...other than making you money)
Now that I've said that...I have to find a REASON for my followers to appreciate this post...what should I add...hmm...How about MATH?!
I was inspired by a post by 
https://steemit.com/math/@qed/the-shortest-known-unsolved-proposition#@jackeown/re-qed-the-shortest-known-unsolved-proposition-20170710t172257853z
In this post he lets us know that the shortest known unsolved proposition boils down to the following statement:
there are infinite primes p of the form p=b^2-2
When I saw this I started thinking of ways to prove it...for a minute I thought I had it by adopting the classic argument for why there are infinite primes. (I later realized this was garbage lol) Anyway, in case you haven't seen it, here's the classic proof that there are infinite primes!
(A prime is a positive integer which is only divisible by 1 and itself)
Proof that there are infinite primes!
Assume for the sake of argument that there are instead only finitely many primes.
Let's multiply them all together and call their product P.
For each divisor d of P, we have that the next multiple of P is at P+d.
Therefore none of these divisors of P can be divisors of P+1 and therefore P+1 is not divisible by any primes in our set and is therefore...Prime!
So we started out by assuming that there were only a finite number of primes and found a contradiction in that line of reasoning by finding a prime outside our "finite set of all primes".