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Re:`Alien Calculus’ Could Save Particle Physics from Infinities by simonh on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:18AM (#35480437)
The deeper we go the more objects we find that we can only describe using mathematics. That’s not the same as them being mathematics though. We don’t know what the essential nature of these objects is.

It is an interesting speculation, but it’s also possible it’s just confusing the map for the terrain.

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Re:`Alien Calculus’ Could Save Particle Physics from Infinities by criddell on Saturday April 08, 2023 @09:57AM (#35493158)
If mathematics is the only way we know to describe them, then they might be mathematics. That seems like the simplest possible explanation, so that's probably why I suspect it's probably the correct.

It also seems like a comfortable answer to the question about about what's happening every time I cause wave function collapse and split the universe. I'm just creating a new mathematical structure.

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