No matter what you do, if you look hard enough, it’s all just physics.
*math
Math is just the framework we apply to try and describe physics.
That’s one of its applications, but not exclusively.
Everything else is physics, so yes exclusively.
What? There are clearly things in math that are not created to study or explain physics. Am I misunderstanding your point here?
Probably. Everything is is the result of physics. And I do mean absolutely everything. I’d also argue that any math that isn’t already applicable to physics simply points to something in physics we don’t know about yet. It wouldn’t be the first time we came up with some math before we knew what the application was.
Everything in the physical world is physics. (I’m just now realizing how related those words are…). But mathematics can also describe purely abstract concepts, which I don’t see how those are physics. It may be possible to make connections between some abstract concepts and our physical world, but it’s a strong and imo incorrect claim to make that that’s always meaningfully true (or will be in the future) and that that means those abstract concepts are physics.
Edit: It’s certainly semantically incorrect whether there is a connection between all abstract math concepts and physics or not, because a universe with different physics would have the same math, which means physics cannot be the source of mathematical truth.
That’s what a chemist looks like nowadays. Including the physics undergrad course.
