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{{comic | number = 7372 | date = December 18, 2024 | title = elegant | name = Elegant | image = 1734563288-20241218.png | votey = 173456335120241218after.png | titletext = Max Tegmark is reading this in his office, shaking his fist and shouting 'Weinersmith!' }} ==Explanation== {{incomplete}} ==Transcript== {{computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :1 believe we have eve that the universe is in fact :How e evek prove something :A mathematical object. :Like that? :Look at this cosmos. Look how inelegant it all is! Infinite possible elements that never get used! Probabilistic particles! Non-unified forces! :Look at how equations of stunning simplicity never quite capture what's actually happening! :Lack of agreement between observers! :And look at math! Most numbers are irrational! Most questions, even ones that a child can understand, don't permit a closed-form equation! :The most useful problems can't be solved without computational explosion! Predictions that should be easy become impossible when you add the tiniest bit of chaos! :I :The bewildering :But if the universe is so bad, how come it still basically works? :Crappiness of reality could only be produced by a bewilderingly crappy deep structure! :4 :I believe the designer had a more ambitious goal, but decided not to pursue it and just finished the cosmos to get it over with. :Meaning- :God is the master, and we are his master's thesis! :Patreoncom/zachweinersmith :Smrc-comicscom ==Votey Transcript== {{computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :Have you noticed the people always talking about the elegance of equations never work in applied mathematics? {{comic discussion}} [[Category:Comics tagged science]][[Category:Comics tagged mathematics]][[Category:Comics tagged philosophy]]
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