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1. GoblinSlayer · 1789637250 · focus · HN ↗

   >but as time goes on it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen

   This is quantifiable, right? Should be possible to measure how many mathematicians favor ideas like turbulence, macroscopic quantum physics, anthropic principle, analog geometry, finitism. I think, mathematics doesn't really try to match physics yet.

   1. DonaldFisk · 1789648777 · focus · HN ↗

      Dirac was talking about the fundamental laws. In favour of his point, and not known at the time he gave the talk, the standard model of particle physics is based on the symmetry groups U(1), SU(2), and SU(3), so Lie groups (which mathematicians find interesting) appear to have been chosen by nature.

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