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 universe hardly ever does random or unpredictable things, and the things that are random appear to obey the law of averages, making them predictable at macro scale. If they didnt, complex structures like life could not exist, so we would never have experienced that universe.
While human understanding of math is relatively new, the inexorable laws of mathematics supersede the universe and exists independently of it (therefore, also before it).
Because the universe is predictable, there is math that models it, its not that math controls the universe, its that there IS math to model everything, and that includes modeling how the universe happens to work. What exactly that math is could vary by universe, and so science uses trial and error to figure out which of the infinite possible equations are the correct one for our universe.
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