As someone who lives out in a reality where a basket of apples is not just a number, but some good, some very pretty, some not so good, some rotten, I find that math can also conceal problems, as well as reveal answers. That's why accounting is regulated and subject to review.

Remember epicycles were brilliant math, as a model of our observations of the cosmos, but turned out to be lousy physics, because our point of view is very subjective.

One of the various problems I find today, is that time is treated as a geometric dimension.

We are mobile organisms, with a sequential process of perception, in order to navigate, so our concept of time is as the point of the present moving past to future. Which is codified as measures of duration and correlated with measures of distance.

Though the evident reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Energy is conserved, because it is the present and creates time, as well as temperature, presure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

Ideal gas laws correlate volume with temperature and pressure, but we don't consider them as dimensions of space, even though they are foundational to our emotions, bodily functions and environment, just not the sequence of thought.

So energy goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. Energy drives the wave, as the fluctuations rise and fall.

Much like life moves onto the future, as lives rise and fall.

Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it definition go future to past. Though it is the gut and heart processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the nervous system sorts the information.

There are other examples as well, but I find people to not be particularly receptive to questioning the basis of our current culture, that gives us everything from smartphones, to bank accounts, to atom bombs.