Physics Has its Principles

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Scientific Paper
Title Physics Has its Principles
Author(s) Tom Van Flandern
Keywords Principles, cosmology
Published 1999
Journal None
Pages 87-102

Abstract

Physicists and mathematicians have fundamentally different approaches to describing reality. The essential difference is that physicists adhere to certain logical principles, any violation of which would amount to a miracle, whereas the equations of mathematics generally are oblivious to physical constraints. This leads to drastically different views of what is, and what is not, possible for cosmology and the reality we live in.