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Does the universe contain mathematics or is it all mathematics? Why does mathematics work so well in describing the physical universe?
Is our reality any different to that of a created computer world? A world in cyberspace is ruled by mathematics which is part of the underlying language that the programmer used. If a character in a created world were to explore his world, what would he discover. Would he find anything different to what we have discovered about our reality.
Surely he would find that he can describe his world with mathematics just as we do. If he probed deep enough with a powerful microscope to find the building blocks of his existence, he would discover pixels, the fundamental particles that are themselves made up of light or colour consisting of varying amounts of red, blue, and yellow. So would his fundamental particles be waves or particles. Surely these are the same issues we grapple with our own physical universe.
Galileo wrote that the universe is written in the language of mathematics. His observation was truly profound. He realised that he can explain the world in terms of mathematics. While mathematics is an essential tool in discovering and describing our universe, this video asks the question, what is mathematics.
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