NOTE: BEFORE YOU READ THIS POST, MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND THAT I DON'T CLAIM THAT THE STATEMENTS BELOW ARE ACCURATE, OR, FOR THAT MATTER, CORRECT AT ALL. THESE ARE MOSTLY JUST MY THOUGHTS AND OBSERVATIONS.
If you know for sure that something is wrong here, then don't hesitate to tell me so I can know. Same goes for conflicting beliefs if anyone has any.
Well, back to the math thing:
I don't think there is a real answer to this. Not that I'm aware of. If there is tell me. I tend to think that, while math is a lot of other things, it is also, at the same time, one thing: A thing used by humans to try to translate everything that exists into something we can understand and manipulate. If this is true, then that's pretty cool. Only, I wondered something. What if math has a mistake in it somewhere? As everything in math is ultimately connected, then wouldn't an error cause a chain of other errors? I think this might be true especially due to the length of time in which humans have been studying math, on purpose or not. I think humans technically created math. There is no math that a random spirit does to figure out where a ball goes when it's thrown, or something like that. We made up math to predict where that ball would go.
Also, is there any real way to tell if anything is "right"?
Another thing is, I think that math fails to serve the purpose stated in my, note: "my", definition of math, because of things like irrational numbers like pi, and other things. Can we really totally manipulate circles with the irrational number pi? No. Not really. Yeah, we can get very close, but never honest to goodness on-the-dot.
While I'm on this big spiel about nothing, I might as well state my beliefs about time as well. I don't think that there is the currently observed concept of time. You can't build a time machine and go back in time, because there is no time. Time is this: The comparison of how many times one event occurs to the amount of occurences of another when both events occur constantly. For example, an event, called an hour, is the swinging of a pendulum 3600 times. 1 hour occurs for every 3600 swings of a pendulum. Both things are events that occur with constant timing. Every time the earth moves through one twenty fourth of a 360 degree rotation is basically an hour, so the event of an hour is not something that is purely an idea in an odd sort of way.
Well, since I'm only in geometry, all you calc people can have fun slicing this into little pieces of ground beef with your knowledge of the reality of these things.