0.999....=1

[Teeqoz]

VXIII_THE_BABY said:

Teeqoz said:

Woah there. Physics when applied to real-world problems work brilliantly as approximations (because they are reliant on measurements, you'll never be 100% precise). Math though, is precise.

 

You are touching on a giant philosophical subject though: Are there inherent mathematical properties to the universe, or is mathematics just a human invention to explain the universe? Personally, I lean more to the 1st one, but this, unlike math has no right or wrong answer.

Mathematics isn't a property. Does it make sense to say that a cup has property math? No, this is utter nonsense it's totally incoherent to say so. 

That's problem 1. Problem 2 is Platonism in general. To say that the conception of something lives externally is to commit the absurd self-refuting idea that that which is conceptual is the same as that which is actual.

So what you are saying is that the universe doesn't have mathematical properties? What is pi then? Is there not a mathematical relation between the diameter and the circumference of a circle?

 

I didn't even claim that there was mathematical properties to everything. However I do think there are inherent mathematical properties to how the universe works, and it is these properties we exploit on physics.