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antiracistNew ago

Math is rational. Science is empirical. Math doesn't have to represent or be derived from physics. There is the math belonging to Newtonian physics, and the math belonging to Einsteinian physics. There's Euclidean geometry and non-Euclidean geometry. We can make a math that's different than physics simply by taking some physical law and changing it or breaking it and then investigating what happens. That investigation is a rational one, not an experimental one. When we reason about frictionless surfaces, we do not actually build them physically to see if our mathematical predictions check out. We can use our imagination to imagine worlds very different than our own.