I keep on thinking that everything around us is basically just information. Be it DNA, atoms, or spacetime itself. And math is the set of rules that explain the interaction, flow and existence of this information. We did not uncover all the rules yet. Does this make sense?
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Some things defy perception. If I tried to explain the colour red to a person born blind, there are no words that I could ever use to convey a proper meaning (I could say vibrant, but what does a vibrant colour look like to someone who has seen no colour?)
But I could tell them that the colour is different based on wavelength. I could tell them that blue and red have 450nm and 750nm wavelengths. They won’t know what it means, but they will understand some of the difference, and how it behaves, even if they can’t *see* it.
We’re very much the sum of our experiences.
What’s beyond the event horizon of a black hole, why is there a functional limit on the speed of causality, etc. Math can describe those things without relying on perception and experience.
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