{"id":232309,"date":"2026-02-28T22:06:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T04:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/why-numbers-are-more-real-than-atoms-part-1-mathematical-realism"},"modified":"2026-02-28T22:06:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T04:06:48","slug":"why-numbers-are-more-real-than-atoms-part-1-mathematical-realism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/why-numbers-are-more-real-than-atoms-part-1-mathematical-realism","title":{"rendered":"Why numbers are more real than atoms (Part 1) Mathematical Realism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b_RKBAUQ8VA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Like the mathematical universe.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This video about mathematical realism will probably not benefit you in any way. Enjoy. 1) What are numbers? 2) Why Hume\u2019s understanding of mathematics is incorrect. 3) Why Plato\u2019s understanding of mathematics is probably incorrect. 4) Why the common sense view of mathematics is probably incorrect. See second video for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the mathematical universe. This video about mathematical realism will probably not benefit you in any way. Enjoy. 1) What are numbers? 2) Why Hume\u2019s understanding of mathematics is incorrect. 3) Why Plato\u2019s understanding of mathematics is probably incorrect. 4) Why the common sense view of mathematics is probably incorrect. See second video for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}