Reflection - Mathematics, the language of the universe

Ready for Take Off! Maths is Omnipresent

This video is a thought provoking exploration of math's stupefying power across the centuries. We discover math's signature in the swirl of a nautilus shell, the whirlpool of a galaxy, and the spiral in the center of a sunflower.



Math has been indispensable to everything from the foremost wireless radio transmissions to the prediction and discovery of the Higgs boson and the successful landing of rovers on Mars.

There is a credible cast of mathematicians, physicists, and engineers, who follow math from Pythagoras to Einstein and beyond. All this leads to the gobsmacking question: Is math a human invention(a clever trick) or the discovery of the language of the universe?

 Whether we think we're good with numbers or not, we all use math in our
daily lives. This video sheds fascinating light on how math works in our brains and ponders the ultimate mystery of why it works so well when decoding the universe.

Mathematics and the idea that nature is governed by mathematical laws is a human invention based upon the creation of an abstract world that exists only in our minds as human imagination and not as actual physical reality.

For Instance, we are supposed to believe that air resistance does not exist, and if we do experiments in which there is no air, we will find that different bodies all fall at the same rate. But in real world where air resistance actually does exist if we drop a feather and a hammer, as they do in the video, the feather falls slowly because of air resistance. In the video, we are told to simply ignore this fact as being wrong. That is we are supposed to say the fact is irrelevant and agree that the assumption of no air resistance is the correct law of physics. This is an example of deception, because we are told that Aristotle was wrong. He is only wrong if we don’t agree with the mathematical law for a falling feather. In the case of a falling feather Aristotle gives us a better answer than Galileo does.
Unfortunately, we find that upon examining, the scientific method we discover that so called scientific laws of nature are abstract reproductions that rarely exist in the real world.

The Language of Universe video pretends to be asking the question: Is mathematics a human invention or a deeply mysterious facet of the universe. The obvious conclusion is that mathematics is a human invention and that invention persists as a mystery, because we humans have invested a kind of godlike property in the idea of mathematics as the fundamental reality of the universe.


The video leaves the question unanswered, but strongly implies that nature is mathematical. This idea is supported by the effectiveness of the method of modern science, which appears to prove the unreasonable efficency of mathematics in making predictions about nature.

In the ending, it is shown that the scientific method itself is flawed, because the human illusion that nature is mathematical is a self fulfilling type of illusion.  Humans want to believe that nature is deeply mathematical in whatever we search for and find evidence that upholds/confirms that this is true. But such discoveries are just illusions created by the desire of the human mind to find mathematical order we experience in the real world.

My tummy is full but this video was totally brain food!!! Thanks Ma'am & Rajib Sir.