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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Youre thinking backwards.
For the equations to make sence, theyre taught in the path they were discovered.
We didn’t study vehicles and time their speed and breaking distance/time, and make an equation to fit them conveniently.
The math already existed. Its conveniently convenient because it fits the way it makes sense.
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