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Most things in physics are not really provable at a mathematical level, and mathematical certainty is fundamentally not the goal whatsoever. The idea behind physics is to work as a detective, and use experimentation to establish if some mathematical model holds true or not. It is the experimentation that shows "proof" of a physical statement. Even if the mathematics behind some model shows a supposed proof of something, it has no meaning unless that "proved math" is tested against experiments.


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