The Basic Nature of Physicality

Physicists generally describe their model of the world in mathematical terms, rather than with stories. Describing behaviors around us with math has allowed very accurate predictions of controlled experiments, which have fostered increasingly complex technology. This then raises the philosophical question of what math really is, and whether this math that we’ve discovered or invented as a species is similar to, or radically different than the math that rules the behavior of our cosmos....

December 22, 2022