Given the definitions of each term and given that math is like a living thing or taken on a life of its own, in a manner of speaking, I am curious to know opinions on how to call its insinuation into the lives of people.

Invented: 1. create something new; to be the first to think of, make, or use something. 2. make up; to make up something. (other source) to come upon, to find. To originate; to contrive, devise, or construct, as something that did not exist before; to construct by use of imagination; to concoct; to fabricate.

Created: create 1. make something; to bring it into existence. 2. give rise to something; to result in something or make something happen. 3. produce inventions or art: to use imagination to invent things or produce works of art.

Is invent and create close enough to be considered one and the same thing? And yet they are not synonyms.

That being said, why do we give such credence to the absolutes that math supposedly explains, devises, discloses etc.?

Science insists that life and times can only be explained and proved by mathematical equations’, for instance Einstein’s works on time and relativity, and the new work done on sting theory, etc.

I think we have been confusing proving such metaphysical phenomena with measuring it and people are taking a concrete position about science and saying that if math can not equate it than it is not real.

What say you?