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Man, "outside of science" is doing a lot of work here. We also don't see quantum mechanics "outside of science," why would they also not be fundamental? The fac
by p_j_w 4y ago
Man, "outside of science" is doing a lot of work here. We also don't see quantum mechanics "outside of science," why would they also not be fundamental? The fact of the matter is that there are A LOT of things we can't explain without complex numbers or quantum mechanics, so people believe that they're fundamental. That's not weird.
- eternityforest 4y agoYeah, it definitely is. I'm not denying that they're fundamental, I have no reason to doubt that, I just think it's odd that they are so deeply embedded into everything, simple enough to kind of understand the basic idea of, and yet totally separate from everyday experience. Like, a construction worker may know hundreds of techniques. A painter uses hundreds of colors. A while many people likely only use four operations on real numbers their whole lives. Math is everywhere, essential for engineering, but almost totally hidden from most people. Probably just a consequence of how we kind of jumped straight from "experience and guesswork" to "Hire a pro if you want to build a barn and let them use computers" though.