432 (and 9 for fun) - Degrees Of Separation Between Mathematics And Reality, And A Small Parallel To Simulation Hypothesis
TLDR: if you don't feel like reading a lot, then scroll down. the funner the fact, the bigger the font
first off, to be clear, i didn't discover any of this, and all the facts and figures can easily be googled. i just went through a lot of different claims, pulled the numbers, and did the math to verify. and verify i did...until i found myself face-to-face against an ancient scourge, known well by the prehistoric philosoraptors and mystical mathemagicians from days of yore...
was math invented or discovered? 
This question, whether math was invented or discovered, has been confronted by philosophers and mathematicians for almost as long as we have records dating back to the study of philosophy and mathematics (give or take an ancient civilization, since I'm referring to the ancient Greeks in this example). And in that time, we've come up with many theories in an attempt to answer said question, and they run the full gamut.
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On one side, platonism (the modern flavor), which holds that things like abstract objects (take a perfect circle for example. we know defines it, an infinite set of points equidistant from a center point that form a continuous line. in a way, not only is it impossible to conjure up in reality, it's kind of impossible to even imagine in your head, unless you can imagine infinite stuff) ACTUALLY exist in a completely different dimension, not originating from our imaginings and never appearing in our physical reality, and so exist independently of us.
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And on the other side, theories that view mathematics as a completely man-made system of useful abstractions, some even going so far as saying that these abstractions are ONLY useful to us, and do not actually correspond to any truth in reality (like fictionalist theory).
ok, so what's the answer?
And like all serious, great, eternal questions, this can only be answered with a cop-out: it really depends on your personal philosophy. To me, the question can be interpreted as whether or not it exists independently of us (and so would be easy to answer if you were a Platonist). So already, you can see how several distinct branches of philosophy could intersect that question with more questions: does anything exist independently of our (or yours alone specifically? or just mine? relative to who's asking the question) consciousness? how do we know anything exists prior to our experience of it? even if we imagined it completely spontaneously, does the fact that it corresponds to something existing in reality prior to our imagining qualify as discovery or invention? Etc. etc. etc.
Anyways, that's just some stuff for you to think about. Let's get to the fun stuff, and see if it might have an influence on your answer. The calculations below are somewhat organized with a purpose, but in case you want to just skip around, I'll put the more weird and mind-blowing stuff in a larger font for convenience.
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to the maths!
like any theory worthy of consideration, we start with the great pyramid of giza. why?
the great pyramid's relationship to Pi
ok, so i know this is about 432 and 9, but i just want to use Pi to illustrate the purposefulness and precision that went into the construction.
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base perimeter of great pyramid = 3,023.16 feet
original height of great pyramid = 481.3949 feet
base perimeter of great pyramid / original height of great pyramid = 3,023.16 feet ÷ 481.3949 feet = 6.280000058
6.280000058 ÷ 2 = 3.140000029 that's prettty close
(note: mainstream consensus seems to say that Ancient Egyptians thought Pi was about 3.16, and that it wasn't until Archimedes that it was recognized to be around 3.14...but personally, this was enough for me to start doubting that claim)
and now back to 432
so this is a cool coincidence:
the dimensions of the great pyramid correspond to
the dimensions of our planet at a scale of
1 to 432,000 (great pyramid : earth @ 1 : 432,000 scale)
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original height of great pyramid = 481.3949 feet
481.3949 feet * 432,000 = 207,962,596.8 feet = 3,938.685 miles
3,938.685 miles = polar radius of earth (minus about 11 miles, or an error of about 0.2%)
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base perimeter of great pyramid = 3,023.16 feet
3,023.16 feet * 432,000 = 1,306,005,120 feet = 24,734.94 miles
24,734.94 miles = equatorial circumference of earth ( minus about 70 miles, or an error of about 0.6%)
(note: the accurate calculation of the dimensions of the earth are typically credited to Eratosthenes around 300-200 B.C.; also suspicious of this claim now too)
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interesting facts about 432Hz, just for fun
- pythagorean tuning was set to A432
- the original Stradivarius' were designed to tune to A432
- the american music industry began using A440 standard in 1926
- modern orchestras began use A440 in 1936
- there's a LOT more on the significance of 432hz, but it's not that relevant here
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432 & 9 ...and Time?
let's start with 432
- 24 hours in a day
- 12 hours in half a day
- 720 minutes in half a day
- 4320 seconds in half a day
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seconds in a minute = 60
minutes in an hour = 60
60 * 432 = 25,930
orbital precession of the equinox: when the constellation seen at horizon at dawn changes to the next zodiac sign
= about 26,000 years
(note: some sources have calculated it to be about 25,771 years currently. it's not a constant, and is expected to slowly increase over time)
Saturn's orbital precession of zodiac in Saturn years = 864
432 * 2 = 864
(interesting fact: saturn [a.k.a. kronos] was worshipped as the god of time by ancient greeks/romans. there are also significant connections to 432 in every major religion, plus buddhism, hinduism, norse mythology, etc.)
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THIS WAS MY OMG WTF MOMENT
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approximate diameter of the sun = 864,000 miles
432 * 2 = 864
approximate diameter of moon = 2,160 miles
432 / 2 = 216
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ANYONE ELSE???
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(interesting fact: another strange coincidence [just one of many that include the moon] is that if the sun were not 400x larger than the moon, and ALSO 400x further away from earth than the moon is, we would not have total solar eclipses or total lunar eclipses)
approximate speed of light = 186,000 miles per second
432 * 432 = 186,624 (an error of about 0.3%)
(note: most conventional sources attribute the first successful measurement of the speed of light to Olaus Roemer in 1676. [pretty sure i'm starting to see a pattern here] by the way, his estimate was 140,000 miles per second, just slightly less accurate than the ancient egyptians accidentally and with amazing coincidence coded into the pyramid )
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now with the metric system!
yea, this is about the great pyramid and not 432, but it's by far the most accurate demonstration, and reinforces the idea that these dimensions were not left up to chance
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circumference of circle circumscribing base of great pyramid = 1023.55547651676 m
circumference of circle circumscribed by base of great pyramid = 723.763018365628 m
1023.55547651676 m / 723.763018365628 m = 299.792458
299.792458 * 1000000 = 299792458
speed of light = 299792458 meters per second (that's EXTREMELY ACCURATE)
(note: it's slowly beginning to dawn on me, that there is a tiny tiny possibility that the builders of the great pyramid had advanced knowledge, and so the choice of scale, 1:432,000 was intentional for some reason. otherwise...why not just save a lot of time/money/psipowers and just make it way smaller? anyway, it's not like i'm saying it was aliens or something )
finally Time to 9!
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first some fun (nerd)
9x9=81
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1/81 = 12345678
8/81= 98765432
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12345678 x 9 = 111111111
98765432 x 9 = 888888888
999999999 = 111111111 + 888888888
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1 / 9 = .111111... , 12 / 99 = .121212..., 123 / 999 = .123123..., etc.
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ok here's a weird one
the digital root of the number of seconds in
any commonly used set of time (hour, day, week, month, year, century, etc.)
is always 9
this works for any month, even february. even in a leap year!
and also for normal years
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by the way, the digital root of a number is found by adding all the digits of a number together until you're left with a single digit. so for ALL of these to end in 9 is....peculiar....
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number of seconds in a minute: 60 * 60 = 3600
3 + 6 + 0 + 0
= 9
number of seconds in an hour: 60 * 60 * 60 = 216000
2 + 1 + 6 + 0 + 0 + 0
= 9
number of seconds in a day: 60 * 60 * 60 * 24 = 5184000
5 + 1 + 8 + 4 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 18 -> 1 + 8
= 9
numbers of seconds in a week: 60 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 7 = 36288000
3 + 6 + 2 + 8 + 8 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 27 -> 2 + 7
= 9
seconds in a 28 day month: 5184000 * 28 = 145152000
1 + 4 + 5 + 1 + 5 + 2 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 18 -> 1 + 8
= 9
seconds in a 29 day month: 5184000 * 29 = 150336000
1 + 5 + 0 + 3 + 3 + 6 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 18 -> 1 + 8
= 9
seconds in a 30 day month: 5184000 * 30 = 155520000
1 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 2 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 18 -> 1 + 8
= 9
seconds in a 31 day month: 5184000 * 31 = 160704000
1 + 6 + 0 + 7 + 0 + 4 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 18 -> 1 + 8
= 9
seconds in a normal year: 5184000 * 365 = 1892160000
1 + 8 + 9 + 2 + 1 + 6 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 27 -> 2 + 7
= 9
seconds in a leap year: 5184000 * 366 = 1897344000
1 + 8 + 9 + 7 + 3 + 4 + 4 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 36 -> 3 + 6
= 9
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anyway, this is all just scratching at the surface
trust me, there's way more math weirdness out there if you take the time to look.
But if the thought of numbers and geometric forms and math playing fundamental roles in our reality (possibly the MOST fundamental, such as being the actual structure of our reality) still seems too woo-woo for you, then consider the discovery that physicist James Gates made just a few years ago. During his study of string theory (which attempts to describe the hopefully most basic units of reality) in his representations of some equations used in super symmetry (used to describe the behavior of fundamental particles), he found actual computer code. Very specific computer code, actually, the same kind you might find in your browser, used for error correcting. A discovery like this seems to support simulation theory, as well as other theories closer to the Platonism side of the spectrum.
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anyway, the whole point of all this is
STOP MAKING FUN OF ANCIENT ALIENS GUY BECAUSE HE'S TOTALLY RIGHT AND WILL BE COMPLETELY VINDICATED SOMEDAY, THIS, I PROMISE.
WHY???
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