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Listener Questions 35: Exomoons, black holes and math!

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Can You Devise Laws of Physics That Don't Have Numbers?

He writes in his book like, I denied that numbers exist. He imbues points of space with certain kind of properties so that you don't ever have to do any calculations. In his formulation of Newton's gravity, there are new equations. There is no mathematics. For us, math is the language itself. But he developed a way to perform these calculations and think about it that doesn't have math as the internal steps or either as the answer. Is this credible?

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