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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The physical world doesn’t operate on maths. The operating system of reality isn’t math-based. We don’t know how reality works. We have absolutely no fucking idea whatsoever, and we never will.
But we can use our own language of logic and numbers to try and describe what see so accurately that in some instances, the descriptive (what have I seen) becomes predictive (what do I expect to see next). This we call mathematics and physics. It’s an attempt at making a language that is purely based on logic and reason, in order to most accurately describe what happens, so that we humans can talk about what kind of causes might have what kind of effects.
Maths and physics are languages. They have no direct connection to reality. Their fundamental nature is not that they are *true*, but that they are *precise*.
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