I was watching a video about black holes, and when they mentioned that Einstein proved black holes exist with maths, it hit me.
I’ve never asked myself that question, how do numbers tell you that something exist in outer space and what to expect from it? especially things that we never knew they existed in the first place (exp black/white holes) ?
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A good example of math finding something is Neptune. When Uranus was found, it’s orbit was calculated but the actual observations showed it was off from the calculated orbit. Astronomers thought that there must be another larger planet out there throwing off the orbit from their calculations that had yet to be discovered. They calculated how big the planet would have to be and where it would be using math. They then looked where the math calculated where this mystery planet would be and holy shit there it was.
I’m sure the full story is a tad more complicated but it’s the basic story.
This is why I love math. My background is math, well at least before I went into IT. Math is the language used to construct the universe. Math is everywhere.
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