Commenter questions whether mathematics truly follows physics
4 Sep 17 5:27 AM · 6d ago · 2 comments · 1 source · development 4 of 7
GoblinSlayer raises a critical point: while Dirac argued mathematicians and physicists converge on the same truths, the reverse may not be quantifiable—mathematics may not actually be trying to match physics yet.
“This is quantifiable, right? Should be possible to measure how many mathematicians favor ideas like turbulence, macroscopic quantum physics, anthropic principle, analog geometry, finitism.”
GoblinSlayerPaul Dirac Physicist and mathematician (historical figure)rramadass Hacker News user
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"I would like to put forward a suggestion as to how such a scheme might be realized. If we express the present epoch, 2 x 109 years, in terms of a unit of time defined by the atomic constants, we get a number of the order 1039, which characterizes the present in an absolute sense. Might it not be that all present events correspond to properties of…
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>but as time goes on it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosenThis is quantifiable, right? Should be possible to measure how many mathematicians favor ideas like turbulence, macroscopic quantum physics, anthropic principle, analog geometry, finitism. I…
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