Quote of the Day | 0125
Relaying on mathematics is demonstrably absurd because it makes two unprovable assumptions – that maths can accurately describe the universe and, even if that is true, that our maths at this particular moment is good enough to do it.
Faced with these problems defenders of the faith – like the physicist Sean Carroll – have argued that it is time we loosened our definition of science to include purely mathematical proofs. This is a serious – indeed, a reckless – escalation that turns what was a skirmish into outright war in which there will be many more casualities than just superstring theory.
Bryan Appleyard, ‘Physics: Superstitions and Allegories?’
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