Alan Grayson aka Mr.Carl Sagan co-author wrote: *> you seem to deliberately ignore the fact that in physics we use > idealized cases to reach important insights.*
Far from ignoring it for years I've been trying to convince Bruno that mathematical approximations help us understand physical phenomena but simulations are always simpler than the real physical thing; therefore physics is not an approximation of mathematics but mathematics is an approximation of physics. So physics is more fundamental than mathematics. I mean... if a mathematical model of what the path of a hurricane will do does not conform to what it actually does we don't say the physical hurricane made an error, we say the computer model made an error. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2SLJY30BwsQRHqPJ5RQvfLZnpQA4QUecxMQzzTx55_Ww%40mail.gmail.com.
