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  "abstract": "Simplicity of Reality: Deconstructing the Mathematical Epicycles of Modern Physics Abstract: This paper argues that the impenetrable mathematical abstraction of modern theoretical physics is not a necessary feature of reality, but a direct symptom of a flawed ontological foundation initiated by a fundamental methodological error. We perform a critical deconstruction of the standard axioms of quantum mechanics, tracing their origin to Max Planck’s “procedural shortcut” of applying a discrete counting method (combinatorics) to a continuous physical problem (black-body energy distribution)—a category error akin to modeling a Gaussian distribution with a Poisson. We demonstrate how this initial methodological flaw necessitated the invention of a cascade of mathematical epicycles (operator algebras, infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces, wave function collapse postulates) to manage its problematic consequences. We extend this critique to General Relativity, positing its complex geometric formalism as another highly predictive but ontologically flawed epicycle built on the now-falsified axiom of local realism. [...]",
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