How is it that math explains the physical world?

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The Einstein black hole equation got me thinking. In a universe where so many things seem random, unexplained, and misunderstood, how can numbers on a paper explain and predict how the universe works?

It blows my mind that this concept (math) is so young relative to the universe and can be used to explain how and why things happen. Where’s the connection?

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A more poetic answer; math mimics the shape of reality like a portrait reveals the form of a person- never encompassing the whole but useful in understanding some.

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