| ▲ | jgrahamc 4 hours ago |
| I don't know if this will help, but I believe that all of mathematics arises from an underlying fundamental structure to the universe and that this results in it both being "discoverable" (rather than invented) and "useful" (as in helpful for describing, expressing and calculating things). |
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| ▲ | HackerNewt-doms 3 hours ago | parent [-] |
| Why do you believe that the same mathematical properties hold everywhere in the universe? |
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| ▲ | billforsternz 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Not the person you're replying too, but ... because it would be weird if they didn't. | | |
| ▲ | bolangi an hour ago | parent [-] | | There are legitimate questions if physical constants are constant everywhere in the universe, and also whether they are constant over time. Just because we conceive something "should" be a certain way doesn't make it true. The zero and negative numbers were also weird yet valid. How is the structure of mathematics different from fundamental constants, which we also cannot prove are invariant. |
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