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Re:Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong? by loki49152 on Monday July 11, 2016 @02:37AM (#12069258)
Actually, many people believe that math is "true", and in many cases they believe that math is more real than the physical universe. The position is called Platonism, in its older form, though Kant has his own spin on the idea.
Re:Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong? by tolkienfan on Monday July 11, 2016 @02:36PM (#12073215)
But there are many incompatible mathematical systems, and only at most one of them could describe the actual universe.