is the sound of vinyl due to the physical process of the turntable?

I think another aspect is that, as I understand it, digital and vinyl are mastered differently, so of course they will sound different.

The mathematician in me can understand the theory of digital, and some of the higher sampling rates should theoretically continue to come closer and closer to vinyl, but the emotion in me understands that it just isn't the same.

One other often overlooked difference, with vinyl people would usually listen to an entire side of a record, with digital they are skipping only between "great songs," yet to me they're still missing out on the "esoteric-ness" of what vinyl is.