Is the Universe Entirely Mathematical? Feat. Max Tegmark
Thanks to Max Tegmark for writing & narrating this video, it's based on his book which you can find here on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2i26PDI Thanks to Radiolab for letting me visit them in New...
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Mathematics is a powerful tool in physics, describing everything from the shapes of planetaryorbits to the properties of atoms. Math was used to predict the existence of the planetNeptune, radio waves and the Higgs Boson. Some think it means nothing profound, orthat math is simply something we've made up to be useful. Others think it means thatthere's something fundamentally mathematical about nature. The most extreme possibilityis that our universe is completely mathematical, in the sense that it has no properties exceptmathematical properties. But at first glance, our universe doesn't seem very mathematical at all. A sheep hasproperties such as cuteness and fluffiness — not mathematical properties. Yet we knowthat this sheep - and ...
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Mathematics is a powerful tool in physics, describing everything from the shapes of planetaryorbits to the properties of atoms. Math was used to predict the existence of the planetNeptune, radio waves and the Higgs Boson. Some think it means nothing profound, orthat math is simply something we've made up to be useful. Others think it means thatthere's something fundamentally mathematical about nature. The most extreme possibilityis that our universe is completely mathematical, in the sense that it has no properties exceptmathematical properties. But at first glance, our universe doesn't seem very mathematical at all. A sheep hasproperties such as cuteness and fluffiness — not mathematical properties. Yet we knowthat this sheep - and ...
