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HappySqurriel said:

vlad321 said:

It's not "perfect," it's random particles with their own properties which react in a certain way all the time.  Also in quatum physics you learn that there really is such a thing as complte randomness, so no, it's not perfect.

 

From a mathematical perspective, with an understanding of how imperfect all are algroithms are that demonstrate randomness are something that is completely random seems amazingly perfect to me ... I'm certain that as our understanding of quantum mechanics grows will behave for completely rational reasons and not out of pure happenstance, don't you? Why does everything in our universe always behave in such rational ways?

 

I'm going out a bit beyond the edge of my knowledge here to be honest but I'd say the answer to your question is quantization. The fact that physics as a whole is based around this single indivisble unit makes it very easy to mathematically represent because everything is based on a quantum or multiple quanta which can be counted as integers.

So I think the reason why physics obeys certain mathematical rules is because there is a single smallest possible physical unit which can be portrayed mathematically.

 

But I've only done one paper on quantum mechanics so I could quite plausibly be wrong on this one.