Language, something we use to communicate as a social species.
Man has been able to count almost since he was able to talk. Anything from rough estimations value when barter trading, to counting the sticks on the ground, counting is an incredibly abstract task which is not easily performed. The number four for example, you can't touch it, it is not a physical object, you can't hear it, nor can you see it, you can however associate it with a quantity of physical objects present in front you.
Over time, mathematicians began to experiment with the numbers, resulting in a colossal library of relationships between multitudes of abstracts. Algebra, Pythagoras's Theorem, Calculus, Trigonometry, Pie... the list goes on. Its application in Physics in particular, Chemistry and all the other classes of science its vital to their reasoning and logic. Logic may very well be determined by the numbers, numbers may very well determine our logic. The finite, the comprehendable.
Generally, maths and science work hand in hand, a splendid combination. However, why the errors? The unexplained? The unpredictable? Black-holes for example, a distortion of the space-time continuum, The big-bang, the theory that some say started with a "super-atom, infinitely small, infinitely energetic", how all of this ties with the enormity of the universe, yet, the universe is still expanding? How small is infinitely small? Are we still infinitely small? How much energy can there be? Dark matter? Anti-matter? Are we a dimension within a dimension within a dimension existing within our own dimension? ERR0RS!
Scientists believe that mathematics is the language of the Universe, explaining the logic and the predictable, attempting to calm the storm of unpredictability, even with irrational values. So much so, Pythagoras's Theorem is a communication tool to identify us with the Alien.
What I propose is entirely out of most of your paradigms, something so ridiculous, you probably never wanted to consider, as all of mankind is afraid of weakness, afraid to admit he is wrong.
An analogy I would use to explain this idea, ironically enough, is something from Maths, as I am a student of Science and Maths. Have you ever done questions in an examination that are so long, you needed a whole page to solve it? Those of you doing Mathematics in your Senior years in High School or University should understand this. Now imagine if you had made a silly mistake early on in the question, say if 3+7 equaled 12 instead of 10. The whole working out, the answer you finally achieved, all done in vain, its wrong! The error carries forward and affects your subsequent solution. (Thank God for c.f.m.). Yet sometimes, if another mistake is made along the way, which then puts the correct value back into the working, then the correct answer can be achieved even though the working was wrong. Lets say if i was to substitute the 12 into a formula, but wrote 10 in by accident, the answer will still be correct, but somewhere up there was the mistake.
Assume mankind made that first mistake, if 3+7 equaled 12. If mathematics was not the language of the Universe, the key to its secrets, the definition of logic. HEADACHE! No! It can't be! It all makes SO MUCH SENSE! Assume that man made another mistake by placing 10 in the formula instead of 12, the working out was wrong although a similar result is obtained. Mathematics explains many phenomenons in the world, but not ALL.
Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce the weakness of mankind. He can comprehend the theory of evolution, of the big-bang, of millions of years of time passing with nothing,. He filters out the lies and only listens to the bits he wants, what he considers the truth. But he cannot comprehend that a God made him in his own image, of something beyond infinity, of existence without space or time. Here is his weakness. The singles paradigmatic mind. The limited. How a universe so big is small to a God bigger still, who breath it into existence, just as it is. How a God so big, cared for man so small, counted his every hair and died for him.
Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to so introduce to you, mankind. As long as he dwells in his earthly thoughts and presumptions and assumptions of the world, he will be nothing more than the earth that made him be.
you only live once,
Artking
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