[piytar]

“This is BS. You don’t find the answer to the universe in some obscure mathematical pastime.”

Huh? That is exactly where Einstein found an awful lot of it. Serously, all of physics reduces to mathematics. Or was that /sarc?

[modican]

Be understanding, lot’s of FEAR associated with that.

[newguy357]

Serously, all of physics reduces to mathematics.

Not really...physics is based on mathematics, but it requires physical insight (i.e., is based on experiment) in addition to everything math can offer. In a sense, physics is math with a purpose.

[damondonion]

Huh? That is exactly where Einstein found an awful lot of it...

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Albert Einstein was basing relativity on "thought experiments" rather than anything resembling real research, real experiments, or real evidence, and thought experiments are not a terribly good basis for physics. There are some glaring problems with relativity, not least being the fact that gravity propagates instantaneously to within our ability to measure.