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Just endured this dialog but pulled a great throught from it. True, and an interesting idea that no – nobody has ever really seen a triangle, nevermind an atom or quark. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uYGqFKa7cuE
“I’m frightened and I cannot sleep,”
the little child said.
“I fear there might be triangles
underneath my bed.”
“There might be ghosts,” the mother mused.
“I cannot speak to those.
There may be ghouls and goblins
who will nibble on your toes.
There could be long-toothed monsters
with their eyes a gleaming red.
But there’s no such thing as triangles!
They’re only in your head.”
Love the other quotes from this article, including “In the words of Ian Stewart, mathematics “hovers uneasily between the real and the not-real.
Eugenia Cheng says that math studies not “real things” but rather “the ideas of things.”
And G.H. Hardy once boasted, “‘Imaginary’ universes are so much more beautiful than this stupidly constructed ‘real’ one.””
Good point/idea. The universe isn’t mathematical, the ideas we have about it, are.
And this from Sabrine…
Linking to a good description of Platonic Forms – as that is all a triangle really is. Go find, or figure…