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>Once you realize this, physics seems less fundamental than mathematics, when it comes to understanding the universe. But space and time are natural, ie. you mention a physical interpretation. And a paradox one at that, because you are explaining counting (numbers) by counting (dimensions). > Want to study the universe at the most raw level? I'd rather offer that mathematics is about formalization of what you know, while physics is about exploration of what you don't know. Maths is intrinsic, abstract and relies on intuition. Physics is extrinsic, concrete and relies on experimentation. These separations are arbitrary and not useful, if they don't serve a purpose. Why divide like that at all? If you talk hierarchy, I'd say logic is higher up there. To wrap it up, what's that got to do with bad teaching? I'd suppose that deductive reasoning cannot be taught, because it is learned before language is acquired, then used to acquire language. Maybe, memory can be trained, and curiosity can be stimulated, but school is hardly the right setting to inspire creativity, when most of the time there talking is forbidden. > Zen buddhism Sure, nihilism, or religion overall, is like an escape when you abandon all hope and try to recollect new hope. It is admitting you don't know anymore and going back to square one. |