Mathematics is just a language, and any sufficiently powerful language can say anything that can be said in any other language.
Feynman was right—if you can’t explain it in ordinary language, you don’t understand it at all.
Ordinary language is not sufficiently powerful.
Ordinary language includes mathematics.
“One, two, three, four” is ordinary language. “The thing turned right” is ordinary language (it’s also multiplication by -i).
Feynman was right, he just neglected to specify that the ordinary language needed to explain physics would necessarily include the math subset of it.
Mathematics is just a language, and any sufficiently powerful language can say anything that can be said in any other language.
Feynman was right—if you can’t explain it in ordinary language, you don’t understand it at all.
Ordinary language is not sufficiently powerful.
Ordinary language includes mathematics.
“One, two, three, four” is ordinary language. “The thing turned right” is ordinary language (it’s also multiplication by -i).
Feynman was right, he just neglected to specify that the ordinary language needed to explain physics would necessarily include the math subset of it.