Or rather, the math is not reflecting reality. .....
Yep, I’ve been telling people this for years. Mostly get odd looks.
I am an engineer. One of the requirements for my job is that the math HAS to reflect what is going on (to an acceptable degree of precision). So when a model is shown to not be that accurate, I realize that the model is wrong and needs to be rejected. Doesn’t matter if it is pretty or elegant, it has to work.
Physicist deal with things so large and so small, that the model is viewed with more precision than the reality. They get lost in the numbers and the beautiful math. So if it doesn’t reflect all of reality, that isn’t an issue.
That is part of the divide between engineer and theory guys. We have to make it work in the real world. Theory guys spend a lot more time naval gazing and building models. Both are needed, and both can be over done.