QwQiao likens recent math anomalies to Mercury's orbit: math isn't broken, our knowledge is
CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-10-08
QwQiao draws an analogy to 19th-century astronomy: Mercury's deviation from Newtonian laws (0.000001%) looked like a cosmic bug until Einstein explained it with general relativity a century later. He argues math itself isn't imperfect—our collective knowledge is—and quips that P = NP holds, just with an absurd polynomial degree.
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