[GlobalFrog]

That's interesting actually : isn't that more a philosophical question or just an interpretation ? That is, if 1+1 is just an alternatative representation of '2', you can postulate that the universe is fixed, predefined and timeless. But if you consider that '1 + 1' is not just a representation of '2' but has more information in it, that information could be the dynamic and evolution that we call time. Isn't that linked also to the usual question of the link to reality of Mathematics ?

[slibhb]

It's a philosophical question. Whether 1 + 1 = 2 is a tautology (analytic) or if it "has more information in it" (synthetic) is an open question. This dispute is associated with the analytic-synthetic distinction which has existed since at least Kant.