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Comment by nasimrahaman_tt

3 hours ago

> What if mathematics is unreasonably ineffective at escaping the convex-hull of concepts and patterns found in nature?

Interesting. My intuition here is quite the opposite, that math is vastly overpowered for physics. I don't think we invest a lot of work in figuring out math that isn't useful to describe the natural world.

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