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Why is math so important for physics?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Is There Something in the Water in Scotland?

The laws of nature are written in a sub-dialect of math. It's calculus and even there it's the particular part of calculus we call differential equations. For the 35 orders of magnitude that we've done science on so far, it's calculus baby. The spookiest and most profound thing there is that this works.

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