[p1esk]

Do you have any reasons to suspect the universe _cannot_ be described mathematically? Mathematics, unlike physics, is pretty flexible.

[d_tr]

We are essentially asking whether the universe could contain a complete encoding of its workings.

The answer is certainly not obvious to me, especially when we have results such as Goedel's theorems.

[p1esk]

Goedel’s theorem is not a problem because math is not limited to models of our universe.