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“It was an act of despair, to sacrifice physics for the sake of finding an explanation.”
- Max Planck
- circa 1900
Planck Constant
A later reflection by Planck about the year.
Planck didn’t advance physics by defending what he believed, but by surrendering it when the evidence refused to cooperate. His “act of despair” reminds us that truth doesn’t yield to confidence. It yields to honesty—especially at the moment when our most trusted explanations stop working.
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Is math always rational?
Math and Idea Categories
Do not classify a claim by the tools inside it. Math, logic, models, and abstractions may all appear inside an empirical statement or theory. Ask what the whole idea is ultimately describing. If it directly describes the material world, it is empirical; if it works through abstraction and relationships, it is rational.
Math
The Language of the Universe.
Mathematics is not the universe, but it is the language we use to describe its structure. Numbers, functions, symmetry, and relationships allow us to model patterns that repeat from subatomic particles to galactic clusters. Math does not create reality; it reveals the logical framework woven into it. When we misunderstand math, we misunderstand what we think we see.
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