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minus-squareSmoothOperator@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-22 months agoI would argue that physics is based more on experiments than math.
minus-squareDonkter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoPhysics is basically “some guy way cooler and way nerdier than you 100 years ago did some experiments observing this law, and because of that we can use really hard math to predict the whole universe.”
minus-square0ops@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoYou’re not wrong, but we’re doing the experiments to test the theory, and that requires some math
minus-square🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoThats how it used to be. Now physics is eating its own theoretical tail.
I would argue that physics is based more on experiments than math.
Physics is basically “some guy way cooler and way nerdier than you 100 years ago did some experiments observing this law, and because of that we can use really hard math to predict the whole universe.”
You’re not wrong, but we’re doing the experiments to test the theory, and that requires some math
Thats how it used to be. Now physics is eating its own theoretical tail.