New Kinds of Science
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'''Science''' is an enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the world. Traditionally we use mathematics to explain the physical world, which means theorems, equations and formulas. So there is a physical universe, and a mathematical universe, and both can be connected in a meaningful way with each other. | '''Science''' is an enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the world. Traditionally we use mathematics to explain the physical world, which means theorems, equations and formulas. So there is a physical universe, and a mathematical universe, and both can be connected in a meaningful way with each other. | ||