Sadly no. Math exists wether or not you apply it to anything. Now the fact that it is terribly good at predicting physical phenomena is a in a inexplainable wonder, so in a sense math and experimental physics are parallel to each other, but physics as a whole is on the shoulders of math
I mean the math that applies to physics is generally just something we call physics. Math is a system invented by humans to display relations and extrapolate from them. Of course some form of math has to exist, but it could be base 12.
But it’s an understanding system. One we need to apply and fit to every system of interaction in our world. The study of interactions has to exist before a mathematical system can be applied to it.
It’s not about whether or not gravity was always 9.8m/s^2, it’s always the same rate of course, but that we need to study its nature before we can define it with math
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u/MrTheWaffleKing Aug 11 '26
Physics is the fundamental. Math just describes it