• Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      What? There are clearly things in math that are not created to study or explain physics. Am I misunderstanding your point here?

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        5 days ago

        Probably. Everything is is the result of physics. And I do mean absolutely everything. I’d also argue that any math that isn’t already applicable to physics simply points to something in physics we don’t know about yet. It wouldn’t be the first time we came up with some math before we knew what the application was.

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          4 days ago

          Everything in the physical world is physics. (I’m just now realizing how related those words are…). But mathematics can also describe purely abstract concepts, which I don’t see how those are physics. It may be possible to make connections between some abstract concepts and our physical world, but it’s a strong and imo incorrect claim to make that that’s always meaningfully true (or will be in the future) and that that means those abstract concepts are physics.

          Edit: It’s certainly semantically incorrect whether there is a connection between all abstract math concepts and physics or not, because a universe with different physics would have the same math, which means physics cannot be the source of mathematical truth.