One could also add the fact that the universe is written
in mathematical laws that seem to be waiting to be discovered by us.
Based on the data, the researchers found a
simple mathematical law for the interaction force between two pedestrians that depends only on the «time until collision» factor.
C. F. von Weizsäcker (1912 --RRB-, an eminent physicist and philosopher, said in his Gifford Lectures; «the concept of exact
mathematical laws of nature which was only dimly present in Greek thought gained far greater convincing power by means of the Christian concept of creation.
If at the sub-microscopic level you have simple entities, you need to have not only vague appetitions but some hope of getting to the Lorentz force law, which is the particular
mathematical law known to determine the motions of electrically charged particles.
Already in the seventeenth century the most sensitive thinkers had come to see their world in terms of matter whose motion is governed
by mathematical laws.
Since the Enlightenment, it has become a tacit assumption of our culture that the only kind of knowledge worth bothering with is that which can be proven by experiment and described
with mathematical laws.
«What is surprising is that the relative abundance of particles of different sizes follows, with a high accuracy, a
beautiful mathematical law «of inverse cubes».
A comparison of
several mathematical laws regarding costs of technologies finds that industrial growth and productivity can be predicted in many sectors, including aeronautics
But Hennig knew that the fractallike deviations he'd observed in previous studies were imperceptible to the human ear, and he wondered whether Porcaro's rhythm would obey the
same mathematical laws.
Instead, the researchers analyzed the MRI results using information theory, a branch of mathematics based
on mathematical laws surrounding the behavior of data as it is retrieved, transferred or stored.
Because he created a new kind of mathematical - what he called «mathematical natural philosophy» in which it was okay not to opine about what, in fact, nature truly was but it was good enough to be able to
give mathematical laws that explained it.
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If all is determined and follows
precise mathematical laws, if effects invariably follow causes, then how can we continue to believe that God guides our lives and responds to our prayers?
By PER BAK, HENRIK FLYVBJERG and KIM SNEPPEN Physics has been immensely successful in
finding mathematical laws that help it describe the Universe.
He also acknowledges that the mystery of why the physics of the universe seems to be written
in mathematical laws that are waiting to be discovered is deeply mystifying.
A convinced Platonist, at least with regard to the existence of
mathematical laws, Davies rejects the cultural view of mathematics merely as a language created by man to describe the natural world; and like his colleague Roger Penrose (one of the foremost theoreticians on black holes) he flatly asserts that mathematical laws have an existence of their own:
This orderly structure emerges as the result of blind physical forces and
mathematical laws.
The cosmic law, according to Hinduism, is not
a mathematical law but a sacrificial order.
It is no longer an economy of
mathematical law but of revelation and grace, faith and obedience, of providence and prayer.
But dynamical laws are expressed in the form of mathematical equations, and if we ask about the cause of theuniverse we should ask about a cause of
the mathematical laws.
The nineteenth - century scientific view presented nature (reality) as a mindless machine composed of Newtonian particles operating according to
mathematical laws.
They found also that such qualitative forms as musical tones correlate with quantitative measures and can be expressed as functions of
mathematical laws.
One wonders why sounds reverberate so magnificently and finds out that the architect did careful planning, making use of
the mathematical laws of acoustics.
But this is not
a mathematical law of progress, of course.
Already in 1630 he had written to Mersenne: «God sets up
mathematical laws in nature, as a king sets up laws in his kingdom» (Berman 1981 p. 111).
This is
a mathematical law that describes the strength of the force of gravity on those bodies.
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This seemingly odd convergence has actually been observed by several historical scientists, including Galileo and Leonardo da Vinci, both of whom suggested that
a mathematical law could explain the resistance of wooden beams under stress.
There is little that is new in The Mind of God — the birth of the Universe, anthropic cosmology, and the nature of
mathematical laws — and even the links with God echo the author's God and the New Physics, which appeared 10 years ago.
Nevertheless, the idea that energy couldn't be split infinitely many times — that there was an indivisible quantum of energy — was the only way he could fit the observed spectrum of radiation from a hot body to
a mathematical law.
Surely an engineer would, unlike Robert Smithson or Richard Tuttle, have thought of entropy not as metaphysics, but
a mathematical law and the driving principle of life.
A physical or
mathematical law would be admissible only if it it relevant, for example when combined with observational evidence to establish that the accused could not have committed the act.