Yes, the decision in question even mentioned this. The Court acknowledges that in some fundamental sense all machines are just mathematics + physics. But for the purposes of patent law, the fact that all inventions are nothing more than discoveries of special cases of physics and mathematics, is not the relevant level of analysis. Rather, patent law presupposes that some novel combinations of such principles are "inventions", and the question is which ones.
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Yes, the decision in question even mentioned this. The Court acknowledges that in some fundamental sense all machines are just mathematics + physics. But for the purposes of patent law, the fact that all inventions are nothing more than discoveries of special cases of physics and mathematics, is not the relevant level of analysis. Rather, patent law presupposes that some novel combinations of such principles are "inventions", and the question is which ones.