The mysterious connection between mathematics and physics.
The essay is in the form of a dialogue between the two authors. We take John Wheeler's idea of "It from Bit" as an essential clue and we rework the structure of the bit not to the qubit, but to a logical particle that is its own anti-particle, a logical Marjorana particle. This is our key example of the amphibian nature of mathematics and the external world. We emphasize that mathematics is a combination of calculation and concept. At the conceptual level, mathematics is structured to be independent of time and multiplicity. Mathematics in this way occurs before number and counting. From this timeless domain, mathematics and mathematicians can explore worlds of multiplicity and infinity beyond the apparent limitations of the physical world and see that among these possible worlds there are coincidences with what is observed.
Math, UIC, 851 South Morgan Street, Chicago, IL 60607-7045, USA. Electronic address: kauffman@uic.edu.
Louis H
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Kauffman
Theoretical Sciences Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research(JNCASR), Bangalore 560064, India.
Rukhsan
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Ul-Haq
D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D008433:Mathematics / Q000379:methods*; D010825:Physics / Q000379:methods*