Math: Invented or Discovered?

I have been doing some reading lately that has caused me to realize that some mathematicians believe that humans “invented” math.  I had honestly not considered that possibility.  I have always believed man “discovered” it.  I assumed that math was always there in nature…in the planetary movements, in the fluid dynamics of the blood in our veins, in the geometric intricacies of flowers, in the rate at which objects fall, in the correlations of sound waves that produce music pleasing to our ears.  We cannot take credit for any of that happening.  We have just noticed the relationships and attempted to quantify .them so that information can be exchanged.

I suppose modern mathematicians believe they thought up the idea of writing programs…of coding.  But the more we learn of DNA and the ability of every cell of our bodies to transmit essential bits of information, the more we are forced into believing that coding has existed in the natural world from the beginning also. 

I am wondering how long it is going to take and what will have to happen in order for the world of science to admit that someone actually planned it all out.  An intelligence underlies all of the natural world, an intelligence capable of mathematical precisions, of solving equations we haven’t even thought of yet.

I also recently read an online article titled “The two most dangerous numbers.”  According to this article, it seems that the strength of the Higgs field, according to the theory of general relativity and the theory of quantum mechanics, should either be “off” ( i.e. having a strength of zero) or “on” with a value which is absolutely enormous.  However, observations are that neither of these is the case.  The force is “slightly on.”  This is inexplicable….and also essential to the existence of the universe.

The second “dangerous” number is the force of “Dark Energy.”  The value by the calculation of physicists should be 10¹²⁰ times stronger than the value they have observed.  Again this is fortunate, as the calculated value would result in the universe being pulled apart.

A couple of lucky coincidences?

Harry Cliff, a particle physicist at CERN is quoted in the article as saying, we may be entering “an era where we will never be able to answer the question why is there something rather than nothing.”

On the one hand, one has to believe that there is a possibility that a break-through will come.  There have been periods of plateau and stagnation before the next advance previously in the history of math, and other areas of knowledge, for that matter.  There is no reason to stop searching for answers.

But…we have still to capture the real essence of infinity.  Who of us can actually wrap his mind around that concept?  Perhaps, we cannot go further into what is infinitely small either.  

I believe man’s knowledge will one day reach its finite end.  I believe there is something rather than nothing, because God Himself spoke that something into existence in all its precision and beauty.  He holds the knowledge that is outside of our reach and one day, every knee with bow.