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Godelizing the Yablo sequence

Ever couldn't sleep or eat thinking what happens when truth is replaced with provability in the omega liar? Now you can put your qualms to rest, this issue (needless to say, of ultimate relevance to Great Philosophical Questions) has been handled! Cezary Cieslinski and I have finished drafting a paper about this. (Of course, the entailment of corollaries about The Meaning of Life is so obvious that we didn't bother stating them.) The paper is available here . Abstract.  We investigate  what happens when `truth'  is replaced with  `provability' in Yablo's paradox. By diagonalization, appropriate sequences of sentences can be constructed. Such sequences contain no sentence decided by  the background consistent and sufficiently strong arithmetical theory. If the provability predicate satisfies the derivability conditions, each such sentence is provably equivalent to the consistency statement and to the Godel sentence. Thus each two such sentences are provably