>>10878127I have a degree in geology. Mathematics isn't the best at explaining the universe as you assume. At best it's an approximation.
Don't believe me?
Calculate the runoff down a river in Nepal after a rain event.
Calculate the rate of evapotranspiration in a riparian zone along the Missouri river after planting 10,000 oak trees.
Calculate the likelihood of a landslide after a homeowner removes 5 tons of earth from the hillside in his backyard.
Based on the rate of movement along the San Andreas fault calculate the next major earthquake event.
I remember a conversation with my father, a physicist who worked for Jet Propulsion Lab for 30 years about my surprise that so much in geology uses empirical formulas like the Manning Equation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manning_formulaWhich we know to be wrong but are forced to use it because math cannot calculate so many unknown variables. His answer was that in rocketry they're forced to do the same because there are too many variables in the atmosphere to correctly model how a rocket flies through it. The only thing they could do is run thousands of experiments and use empirical data to make computer models.
And yet we still get retards like you on /sci/ .... especially on /sci/ that think that everything has a nice neat formula and math is the perfect language of the universe. I blame that fucking stupid retarded uneducated trash from XKCD for popularizing the idea that math is somehow more 'pure'.
