Reply #8: Chicken or eggs?

[one_true_leroy]

"It's strange how an artificial construct could so perfectly mesh with the the universe it describes."

Who's to say that math is an artificial construct? It may well be the ideal that Plato would have said is being imperfectly reflected in this world. When this ideal is manifest, it is subject to chaos (physicists call it noise, non-linear dynamics, and quantum fluctuations) and is 'corrupted.' What's amazing is not that it is an artificial construct that meshes as you described, but that human minds have been able to stare at the corrupted form in Nature and deduce the ideal form in Math. In this sense, Math then becomes more real than Nature.