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Subject: Re: math, is it just physics?
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sobriquet wrote :
> We often hear claims that math has nothing to do with reality and is just 
> something that exists in our imagination or some platonic realm of idealized 
> forms.
>
> For instance in the intro to this recent yt contribution:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzuDSTamzrE
>
> On the other hand there seems to be mounting evidence that the patterns in 
> physics match up in intriguing ways with abstractions on a conceptual level.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OxVsVUesSc
>
> So in a way one could claim that concepts like integers and their properties 
> and relationships can be more or less empirically observed in the behavior 
> and properties of things like elementary particles such as electrons or 
> fields.

There's also this:

https://math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html