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Independent Mathematicians Keep Discovering Identical Math Suggesting Pre-Existing Structure
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Physics Just Gave Four Separate Proofs The Universe Is A Simulation — The Last One Is The Most Disturbing | Tom Deepdive
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"In the 1660s, Isaac Newton was sitting in his mother's farmhouse, hiding from the bubonic plague, working at a new kind of mathematics. Around the same time, a German named Gottfried Leibniz was working on related geometry problems in continental Europe. He'd never met Newton. He'd never even seen Newton's notes. Leibniz nonetheless described the exact same mathematics."
The presenter cites multiple cases of mathematicians independently discovering identical mathematical structures, including Newton and Leibniz with calculus, and three mathematicians with non-Euclidean geometry. This pattern suggests mathematics is discovered rather than invented, supporting the idea that mathematical structures exist as the computational foundation of reality itself, analogous to source code in a simulation.
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- Physics Just Gave Four Separate Proofs The Universe Is A Simulation — The Last One Is The Most Disturbing | Tom Deepdive
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