
Is math the language of the Universe?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Is Mathematics Indispensible to Understanding the Universe?
I'm a realist about mathematics, so I come down on the former. Just because physics is in the business of describing a universe doesn't mean we should believe all the physics. We should believe the bits of physics that is really indispensable to our understanding of the universe. But for me, that's as it should be. You're going to get realists about the bits that get used and not all of it. There are going to be speculately parts of mathematics like that that even someone like me is not going to be a realist About.
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