(June 30, 2014 at 11:38 pm)JuliaL Wrote: The universe owes us no obligation to be comprehensible mathematically or otherwise. Sure is useful when it is. But I expect there are directions we'll never be able to look and some where we get hints of existence, but cannot make definite, unambiguous declarations of their truths, e.g. gravity is weak because it is leaking into 3 space from another dimension. Yeah? Prove it.
Of course it owes us no obligation. However, the assumptions that form the basis for the bleeding edge of physics are based almost entirely on the mathematics arising from quantum mechanics. If pilot-waves could be used to accurately describe all the same phenomena as the standard model the bleeding edge could look very different. We may find we weren't even asking the right questions.
