Borel's conjecture: every strong measure zero set of reals is countable. (A set \(X \subseteq \mathbb{R}\) has strong measure zero if for every sequence \(\varepsilon_n > 0\) there are intervals \(I_n\) with \(|I_n| < \varepsilon_n\) covering \(X\).) Status, honestly: independent of ZFC — refuted under CH (Sierpiński 1928), consistent by forcing (Laver 1976).
Émile Borel posed it in 1919. Sierpiński (1928) showed the continuum hypothesis yields uncountable strong measure zero sets, and Laver (1976) built, by forcing, a model of ZFC in which every strong measure zero set is countable — together establishing independence (assuming ZFC consistent). Like the continuum hypothesis itself, it has no truth value decidable from the standard axioms; set theorists study which additional axioms settle it, and the area keeps it as the textbook example of a concrete analytic statement beyond ZFC.
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