So let me get this straight: There are ACTUALLY people on this board, RIGHT NOW...

There is an often implicit assumption that ordinary, day-to-day mathematics should describe something "real", "existing", that there is "one" true model which can then be used, say, in analysis, For example, it is, in some sense, almost absurd talking about infinite-but-Dedekind-finite sets, which is why some people "believe" in Choice Axiom.

And in this pursuit of "true" model we have questions like that. What if, for example, Riemann hypothesis is true with C but false with not C? Which world we actually live in?

>Can you assume the continuum hypothesis as being true or false and still have a consistent theory to work in?
That's the point of something being independent. It can be true, it can be false, you can omit it - consistency doesn't change.