Equations like E=mc^2 and stuff like how the force og gravity becomes 1/4 as strong when the distance between the objects dobles. Similarly with braking distance with cars, double the speed and the braking distance quadruples. These all seem to fit so well.
Have we made math to fit so nicely with physics? Am I thinking of all this wrong? Since I feel it like it would be to big of a coincidense that we can so easily use equations to predic physics. What is actually the reason for this?
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My interpretation is this, that Math is a human invention, and we invented it in order to describe the rules of this universe.
For the simplest example, why does 1+1=2? Because we observe that whenever we add 1 of something to another 1 of something, we get 2 of such things. And this rule appears to be universal, in that it does not matter what that “something” is. Thus, we invented the mathematical expression of Addition to describe this universal rule.
The same idea applies to more complex mathematical expressions, which are used to describe more complex rules in the universe. In fact, there are very advanced physics questions that are waiting for new mathematics to be invented to help solve.
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