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I developed this rule of thumb in an inorganic chemistry class I took once. A lot of inorganic molecules are highly symmetrical, and group theory can be used to study them. Whenever the professor said “we can show mathematically that…”, this would be followed by five to ten minutes of computations that he didn’t understand and which rarely made sense either from a mathematical or from a chemical point of view.

Mathematics can say absolutely nothing about the physical world, it can merely take assumptions and produce logical consequences from them.

Also, somehow it seems wrong to use “mathematics” in the service of this sort of lunacy.