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Originally Posted by aka123
Math is no way hoosay some building block from what the universe is built from.
Math is a language. You can even explain universe by farting; for example using morse code or making up your own language; lets say farting in Klingon by using morse code (or plain words if you are as skilled as Currentlysober).
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that was the point of my comment. using the better term, describes, i'll rephrase.
math is a language that describes the universe, the limits we have within math are what's holding us back from better describing the universe. limits such as infinity. using math as a language, as the physicist i quoted earlier so eloquently and humorously put it:
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The Big Bang theory envisions the universe beginning from a singularity - a mathematical concept of infinite temperature and infinite density packed into a single point of space. But scientists don't think this is what actually happened.
"It wouldn't really be infinite," explained physicist Paul Steinhardt, director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton University in Princeton, N.J., and another architect of inflation. "Infinity just means a mathematical breakdown. It's a statement that you shouldn't have extrapolated your equations back that far because they just blew up in your face."
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requoted because it's true and funny. !!1
infinity means a mathematical breakdown