Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

by Sabine Hossenfelder

We have laws that are mathematical, and whatever you want to know about an atom, the equations will tell you what it does. But the mathematics will not tell you what an atom is. Is an atom just mathematics? Is mathematics all that is? Or is there something, a substance or something, that makes stuff real and is not part of the modern-day scientific canon?

We can see, then, that the origin of the problem of the Now is not in the physics, and not in the mathematics, but in the failure to distinguish the subjective experience of being inside time from the timeless nature of the mathematics we use to describe it.

our existence transcends the passage of time. We always have been, and always will be, children of the universe.