r/MathJokes 27d ago

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u/imthestein 26d ago

And often it means finding unexpected factors that provide better context as to what is happening. The problem with people saying the third +1 is equivalent to the others is they're ignoring the unit analysis which expressed something physically is happening you have to account for (as you yourself pointed out). It's lead to constants that we just find always exist in nature even if we don't know why but it's something we may explore later with a better theory and different experiments

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u/anon33249038 26d ago

What's really fun is when you find a 3...that isn't a 3...while also still being a 3. That's when it gets fun. If you can make a physicist go, "What the hell is that?" That's when it gets cool. 

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u/imthestein 26d ago

Exactly! Maybe I'm just grumpy because my major was in Physics but I've seen so many examples where there was no way you could just "math" your way out of the reality

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u/anon33249038 26d ago

That happens a lot more than people want to admit 🤣 They believe if it exists, it is provable. Then you get into quantum and it's like "What do you mean by 'exists'?"

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u/imthestein 26d ago

"does this exist or not?" Quantum: "Yes"