[fhars]

That is actually deliberate, we tend to organize everyday life and the devices we build around processes that are easy to model, that is why many things look like linear processes and harmonic oscillators (the first two term of the Taylor expansion of the actual behavior). We change the type of spring we use if the current one starts to wear out early under normal operational conditions.

[IIAOPSW]

Let me rephrase on his behalf. Isn't it curious just how unreasonably capable our math is at expressing those physical laws of the universe to which we did not invent.

[jamiek88]

I don’t know, seems a bit Anthropic Puddle to me.