But before you start dreaming of that mansion in Barbados, allow us to pour an icy bucket of mathematical reality over your head: You almost certainly aren't going to win.

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That is the political and mathematical reality.

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Such a bias treats statistics as truth, as opposed to just a mathematical method for describing reality.

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Extra dimensions are of interest because string theory, a class of mathematical models based on quantum theory that seeks to describe reality in the most fundamental way, requires that there be at least six of them, maybe more.

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Having established the reality of his point, he then designed a mathematical model that tried to take into account and quantify sources of error.

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The lack of a reality check which this causes has led theorists so far into the deep end of mathematical speculation that many have started to question if what they are doing is still physics.

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