Re: Do physicists understand physics?

Comic situation.
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On July 2007 I wrote an article:
Do mathematicians understand Physics? / What is for whom?/
The idea is:
Mathematics is not written for mathematicians.
Mathematics is written for physics, for Nature.
This simple fact has been forgotten in science.
…………………….etc
Now mathematics goes ahead of science
and physics follows it. Mathematicians carry the posters
"Forward to abstraction", "Forward to the absurd"
and we all follow them. We march bravely on the dinosaur’s path.
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After enough long discussion I resaved comment from
one mathematician. Here this comment.
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Do mathematicians understand Physics?
To answer your question directly,
Mathematicians are NOT physicists.
Therefore, you can't expect a mathematician to understand everything
a physicist knows and vice versa. Usually the two fields are closely
intertwined however, so there is a lot of shared knowledge.
It is just as much of a mistake to say that mathematicians understand
everything about physics as it is to say mathematicians understand
nothing about physics.
Mathematics is an abstract representation of the real world which is
applicable in just about every profession which makes it a fundamental
skill. By using it, you can model the real world to make accurate predictions. However, math is worthless if you can't effectively use it in the real world.
Physics uses a lot of math to model the real world.
You can't be a good physicist if you don't have math ability and reasoning skills.
To respond to the original post, I'll ask this:
Should we believe a physicist who doesn't understand mathematics?
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So, it is possible to say that mathematicians not guilty.
All guilt lies on physicists.
" Should we believe a physicist who doesn't understand mathematics? "
Does anybody see the comic situation?
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