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Quote by: Zhavric  Good effort, but you still haven't explained how internal convictions are useful for explaining the natural world around us. |
You personally have not followed every known relationship in mathematics and the sciences to come to your present understandings. Within your lifetime you do not have that kind of time or resources.
So, you have the faith that others have used diligent effort to describe a phenomena. You take those results and push forward with the development of your own concepts.
You personally do not understand the Power Tree associated with Nuclear Physics. But if you had the interest, you would open a series of books and accept on faith that the hundreds of calculations involved are representative.
You would not attempt to prove the legitimacy of every equation or proposition. You simply don't have the time or resources to do that. People have spent their entire lives learning only a small piece to contribute to the Power Tree.
You have faith that the individual peices already developed will help you in your own work. Putting infinity on the left side of an equation is a huge leap in faith that it will provide you with useful information about the terms on the right side of the equation. Infinity is a concept, not necessarily a reality.