“We use these and other abstractions because they work, because we have found they describe nature. From a purely mathematical standpoint they are certainly not inevitable; if they were, we could derive them by logic alone. But we can never prove any math to be a true description of nature, for the only provable truths are about mathematical structures themselves, not about the relation of these structures to reality.”
–Sabine Hossenfelder
It bothers me more than it should when in shows and movies car and trucks that I know were never offered in a V-8 pull away with a V-8 sound.
Yeah, sure, maybe an engine swap…but realistically how many people do that in a stock-looking vehicle? Almost none.
The latest one: the Toyota Tacoma has never been offered in a V-8, so why the V-8 noises? I know a V-8 sounds a lot better than other engines, but my car nerd brain squirms a bit when I hear that bit of dissonance with reality.