Re: Is it our math letting us down?

MuDeltaKappa@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Has no one questioned if it's the mathematical system *itself* which is
at fault, simply incapable of describing these things?

I imagine most physicists have thought about this at one time or another. Wigner wrote a famous paper called "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences":

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html

The reason you don't hear more about it is that there's not a lot you can say. If someone came up with an alternative to mathematics, then there'd be something to talk about.

-- Ben
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