zodiac13 Mar 2006

Reality doesn't shift. Say we've got gravity, and we've got a formula that calculates the gravity to masses exert on each other. Suppose we find out that, um, at really large masses (or on the infamous quantum level) the formula doesn't work. Something different happens. That doesn't mean reality's changed, or even gravity; just that the formula was wrong under certain circumstances. Gravity (and quantum mechanics) have probably always worked the same, we just didn't know. No right-minded mathematician has a problem with that.