Brian Greene

The reason why we trust the equations is because we've got centuries worth of observational and experimental evidence that the equations take us in the right direction.

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and it's those very same equations that work here that we are following to their logical conclusion to see where the mathematics takes us right so if you remember the the train of reasoning here you might have just projected here into there that's faith talking though you can't go there all you can do is say well what works but my deep understanding of here

I don't know why it has to be, but that's what you just said.

No, it's actually the reasoning goes in somewhat reverse order from that.

We build mathematical equations to describe here.

We then follow those equations and say, oh my goodness, those equations that we developed to describe here are telling us that there is something over there.

And then we're like, wow, the equations do a great job of describing things here, and the equations have this feature that they tell us there's another place over there.

Maybe that's possible.

The key thing also- This is logic in your mind.

Oh, that's always the possibility.

In fact, it's likely the possibility.

In fact, 99.99% of everything we do is wrong, not from the point of view we make a mistake, but... But the wrongness is a deep wrongness.

In terms of whether the math is somehow contradictory and coherent in some way.

Yes, your tools of learning are not working.

Yes, that would suggest that we were both wrong and that there's a deeper overarching framework.

I mean, I...

I hate to use the word faith, but the one point where I'll give you faith is this.

I do have a deep faith that the universe is coherent.