Talking To A Physicist Can Drive You Crazy

Talking To A Physicist Can Drive You Crazy
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The eternal war between mathematicians and physicists continues! While physicists are happily approximating 0.999999999 to 1 because "close enough for the real world," mathematicians are having existential crises. That tiny 0.000000001 difference might as well be the Grand Canyon to a mathematician! It's like telling a chef that ketchup and fine Italian tomato sauce are "basically the same thing." The mathematician's brain short-circuits with such blasphemy! In mathematics, precision is everything—in physics, it's more like "if it works, it works!" No wonder they can't understand each other's language!

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