Love Story of Physics & Maths

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Love Story of Physics & Maths
Some people ask the question:-
What is the relationship between math and physics?
Well, sometimes Math leads.
Sometimes Physics leads.
Sometimes they come together because, of course,
there’s a use for the mathematics.

For example, in the 1600s Isaac Newton asked a simple question:

If an apple falls then does the moon also fall?
That is perhaps one of the greatest questions
ever asked by a member of Homo sapiens since
If an apple falls, does the moon also fall?
Isaac Newton said yes, the moon falls because of the Inverse Square Law like an apple. He had a unified theory of the heavens, but he didn't have the mathematics to solve the falling moon problem.
So what did he do?
He invented calculus.

Generally, modern calculus is considered to have been developed
in the 17th century by Isaac Newton and Leibniz So calculus is a direct consequence of solving the falling moon problem.
In fact, when you learn calculus for the first
time, what is the first thing you do?
The first thing you do with calculus is you
calculate the motion of falling bodies, which is exactly how Newton calculated the falling moon, which opened up celestial mechanics.
                   So here is a situation where math and physics were almost conjoined like twins, born together for a very practical question, how do you calculate the motion of celestial bodies?

Then here comes Einstein asking a different
question and that is,
What is the nature and origin of gravity?
At that time Physicists know What is Gravity but they don't know How does it work?

Einstein said that gravity is nothing but
the byproduct of curved space.
So why am I sitting in this chair?
A normal person would say I'm sitting in this chair because gravity pulls me to the ground, but Einstein said no, no, no, there is no such thing as gravitational pull; the earth has curved the space over my head and around my body, so space is pushing me into my chair.
So to summarize Einstein's theory, gravity
does not pull; space pushes. But, you see, the pushing of the fabric of
space and time requires differential calculus. That is the language of curved surfaces, differential
calculus.
So again, here is a situation where math and physics were very closely combined, but this time math came first.
The theory of curved surfaces came first.
Einstein took that theory of curved surfaces
and then imported it into physics.

Now we have String theory.

It turns out that 100 years ago Math and Physics Breakup....😅😅😅

In fact, When Einstein proposed Special Relativity in 1905, that was also around the time of the birth of Topology, the topology of hyper-dimensional objects, spheres in 10, 11, 12, 26, whatever dimension you want, so physics and mathematics parted ways.
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Math went into Hyperspace and Mathematicians said to themselves,
          "Aha, finally we have found
an area of mathematics that has no physical application whatsoever".
Mathematicians pride themselves on being Useless.
They love being Useless....
It's a badge of courage being useless, and
they said the most useless thing of all is
a Theory of differential topology and higher
dimensions.

Well, physics plotted along for many decades.
We worked out atomic bombs.
We worked out stars.
We worked out laser beams, but recently we discovered String theory, and string theory exists in 10 and 11 dimensional hyperspace. Not only that, but these dimensions are super.

They're super symmetric.

A new kind of numbers that mathematicians never talked about evolved within String theory.
That's how we call it “Super String theory".

Well, the Mathematicians were floored..😠
They were shocked because all of a sudden
out of new Mathematics comes from a Physics, super numbers, super topology, super differential geometry.
All of a sudden we had super symmetric theories coming out of physics that then revolutionized mathematics.
Again Physics and Math come together..
King (Phy.)❤Queen (Math)

The Goal of physics we believe is to find an equation perhaps no more than One Inch long which will allow us to unify all the forces of nature and allow us to read the mind of God.
And what is the key to that one inch equation?
Super symmetry, a symmetry that comes out of physics, not mathematics, and has shocked the world of mathematics.

But you see, all this is pure mathematics
and so the final resolution could be that
God is a mathematician.
The Mind of God we believe is cosmic music, the music of strings resonating through 11 dimensional hyperspace.

That is the Mind of God.

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