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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Math is a special kind of logic based on counting, and making it more complicated. So I can count how many apples I have, and then I can take a shortcut and add two of those groups rather than re-counting them together. And then I can add those apples I have today and add the ones I will get tomorrow and the day after… which I can shortcut by multiplying. Etc.
I can do the same with distance, for example – one step. 100 steps. My lawn is 50 steps by 50 steps, which is 2500 squares that are 1 step by 1 step.
And energy. I have a battery. That’s one battery of energy. To boil a pot of water, I need 100 batteries of energy.
But there are things that math doesn’t really explain. How do you use math to explain this sentence? Sure, you can convert it to ones and zeroes, but the words don’t really make more sense that way. Math probably can’t explain why green is my favourite colour, and many similar things.
Because math isn’t the thing. Math is the language we invented to make things more intuitive.
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