"Are we observing numbers ? or our mind creates them? Love is the bridge between you and everything."
I went yesterday for a small walk and saw -1.3333 births flying above my head.
"In physics, we construct idealized mathematical models in order to explain various phenomena which we observe or create in our laboratories. In this article, I recall how sophisticated mathematical models evolved from the concept of a number created thousands of years ago, and I discuss some challenges and open questions in quantum foundations and in the Standard Model. We liberated nuclear energy, landed on the Moon and built ‘quantum computers’. Encouraged by these successes, many believe that when we reconcile general relativity with quantum theory we will have the correct theory of everything. (based upon love, which attracts everything even mosquitoes at dusk) Perhaps we should be much humbler. Our perceptions of reality are biased by our senses and by our brain, bending them to meet our priors and expectations.
Our abstract mathematical models describe only in an approximateway different layers of physical reality. To describe the motion of a meteorite, we can use a concept of a material point, but the point-like approximation breaks completely when the meteorite hits the Earth. Similarly, thermodynamic, chemical, molecular, atomic, nuclear and elementary particle layers of physical reality are described using specific abstract mathematical models and approximations. In my opinion, the theory of everything does not exist.
