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Descartes has always been celebrated for his contributions to mathematics rather than physics. Mathematics is internally self-consistant, so it's something that you can do while lounging in your bed. I turned away from theoretical physics because too much of it involves the creation of incomprehensible mathematical constructs which are supposed to explain the universe. Most of these can never be tested, only inferred through observation, much as Descartes did. Mathematics is the language of physics, but just because you are a virtual "poet" in that language doesn't mean that what you say is true or makes sense.

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