@Reverendender@sh.itjust.works
Post #2288182
2026-05-09 14:44 UTC
And yet every professional physicist will tell you that physics IS math, and that if you don’t understand the math, you can’t understand physics, and shouldn’t try.
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@klankin@piefed.ca 2026-05-09 20:22
Physics is a mathematical model with the most proven utility to humans. If you have a model more applicable to a situation, youre free to use it, but its pretty unlikely to be as broadly applicable as modern mathematical physics (A thousand times so when considering computers). But yeah the study of physics is 100% math (And its not 100% a perfect model of reality! Thats why we study it).
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@alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 2026-05-09 22:51
As a physicist, physics is not math. Math is a tool you can use to do physics, but you can absolutely do physics without it. In fact, qualitative physics is the best kind.