Grab an arbitrary piece of maths and it won’t predict anything. There is a technique and speciality and skill of finding the right pieceof maths to match the territory, and that is called physics.
Meanwhile...no professional mathematician gets sacked for failing to predict or otherwise being empirically correct. It’s not their job.
Math doesn’t have a “job”. It’s use by people to fulfill their ends. For most people, those ends are prediction.
Grab an arbitrary piece of maths and it won’t predict anything. There is a technique and speciality and skill of finding the right pieceof maths to match the territory, and that is called physics.
Meanwhile...no professional mathematician gets sacked for failing to predict or otherwise being empirically correct. It’s not their job.