The universe should not be so comprehensible | Avshalom Elitzur on the beauty of #mathematics

[Micheal]

Why can I enjoy asking questions and being bewildered?

[dariuslembert]

This should be taught to young children - it is very unfortunate that the audience had childhood long ago.

[donahunt]

i LOVE this guy❤, his mental landscape is SO RICH!

[CarlAserio]

Thanks!. Im happy to find this scientist= a new GREAT to me!!!

[Asian_American_Christian_Love]

Understanding is a feeling of reassurance. Habitually developed.

[teachernickinsaigon]

Exactly, there is a recognizable pattern there <3

[marshallmykietyshyn]

Maybe I’m not smart enough to understand this logic, but it seems to me that a reasonable explanation is that we’ve developed an understanding of mathematics and science precisely because we live in this universe, and as a way to understand it. From that perspective, it makes perfect sense to me that they are able to describe the universe.

Furthermore, physics and math are not correct. They’re just models we use. So they’re not really understanding, but rather explaining, and you can explain anything to one degree or another.

Also, in order for life to exist, you need stability, and for there to be stability, I would argue you need some form of order. So again, it’s not surprising to me that we can find patterns in that order.

Maybe the surprise is that we’ve been able to do such a good job at creating these models, but given how little we actually know about the universe, I’m not at all surprised by this.

I’m sure this guy is very smart, but to me this sounds a lot like saying something in a profound way to make it sound more complicated than it is.

[SMMore-bfyi]

Looked up the Wigner paper…9 pages… thx
Ur right….. much more comprehensible when not trying to overcomplicate it

[wtwvxdt]

our minds have just adjusted to this insanity. we are not aware of anything better.

[stoyanfurdzhev]

Godlike explanation leaning towards monism and justice

[Emeraldheart]

Mathematics is best understood without numbers love this bro 🙏❤💯✅

[johnnythunders]

What if we only comprehend the part of the universe that we can, and the part that we can’t does exist, but outside of what’s available with sensory experience?

[SkyDarmos]

It was a miracle to Wigner because Quantum mechanics is an idealist theory. It is miraculous that our world is idealist and mathematical at the same time.

[rickrichter]

Only one objection, prior to plato, perhaps unwritten ❤

[reeves]

Comprehensible? Please explain the fine structure constant and how it relates to matter/energy.

[edzejandehaan]

"So there must be etc" is not a question, it's a statement. For which you give no arguments, let alone evidence.

[CSniper]

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
by Eugene Wigner

[jjiacobucci]

Chris Langan had a premise that consciousness was the universe looking upon itself as self realization. All the minds in the universe is one mind, the mind of the universe

[algalgod]

Food for Thought: How is it that the apple being cut by a knife is the result of the knife cutting the apple?

[Nuno_Alves]

There is a hierachy to existence. Logic exists because of the Universe. Not the other way around. Be humble and you will understand.