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I think it’s the other way: math is unreasonable good at describing physics!

Imagine a universe where the laws are best described in iambic hexameters under the condition that the last letters of the stanzas form specific words.

The ancients held some believes like that: kabala, astrology and the like. How wonderfully absurd it must have felt to them that the answer was something even more removed from reality.



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