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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
Many have some kind of a love affair with mathematics, thinking that if something is mathematically consistent, it must be true. It is true that baseless speculation can set you on a course of investigation to find the true nature of things. But it is not true that reality must yield to the power of baseless speculation.
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I agree. Speculation is speculation, nothing more.
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain they do not refer to reality."
-Albert Einstein,
Geometry and Experience