Re: How Does The Universe Work?
Reach, um, the fabric of spacetime is a metaphor, and is perfectly fine to use. Saying that "math breaks down" just shows that you're uninformed. And wishing that higher math would just go away so we wouldn't have such complicated theories just seems like a plaintive excuse. I have to ask, how much math do you even know?
And what do you mean by "the curvature of spacetime isn't real"? It's as real as quarks and gluons are, because the currently accepted theory posits their existence. I'm not sure what exactly you're getting at there.
-fs
Reach, um, the fabric of spacetime is a metaphor, and is perfectly fine to use. Saying that "math breaks down" just shows that you're uninformed. And wishing that higher math would just go away so we wouldn't have such complicated theories just seems like a plaintive excuse. I have to ask, how much math do you even know?
And what do you mean by "the curvature of spacetime isn't real"? It's as real as quarks and gluons are, because the currently accepted theory posits their existence. I'm not sure what exactly you're getting at there.
-fs
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