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> Everything is limited by physics. Everything is controlled by the maths of physics and chemistry.
by Terry_Roll 4y ago
> Everything is limited by physics.
Everything is controlled by the maths of physics and chemistry.
- lazide 4y agoSome would argue everything fundamentally is physics, including mathematical models of chemistry. I can’t say they are wrong. Physics being math doesn’t quite make sense to me yet, if for no other reason than a large body of physics laws are ‘because that is what happens in real life’ when you get down to it. It’s clear the math is a tool to try to reason about the reality, not the other way around.
- Terry_Roll 4y agoPhysics is a branch of maths dealing with environmental and/or chemical properties. Those properties could be constants or additional formulas in their own right, just like a computer program in many ways.
- lazide 4y agoHard disagree there. Physics is experimental exploration of fundamental physical rules in the universe, which requires maths to model and further explore. But the reality came first. Chemistry is ‘higher level’ physics, and similarly the discipline grew out of observed reality far before the maths were used. Maths were useful tools, and continue to be more and more useful as they are developed and have useful predictive power. But the predictive power (and falsifiability of their predictions) against reality is key.