The purpose of this paper is to show that the study of physics is limited when only mathematics is used to explain the phenomena in the world around us. The thrust of this paper is to suggest that mathematics is a language, like English, that describes reality but does not represent it. This paper further suggests appropriate behavior would be to use reality, modeling, and mathematics to study the phenomena that surrounds us. Two mental experiments are presented to bring this idea home. One is of a king's roses and the other examines special relativity from an alternate point of view.
Al Schneider