Our Mathematical Universe with Max Tegmark

The Royal Institution October 8, 2014
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Our universe isn't just described by mathematics, but it is mathematics. Specifically, it's a mathematical structure. Our world doesn't just have some mathematical properties: it fundamentally has only mathematical properties. Subscribe for more science talks! http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Buy Max's book "Our Mathematical Universe" - https://geni.us/0ys9 Why is mathematics so spectacularly successful at describing the cosmos? In this Ri talk, MIT physics professor Max Tegmark proposes a radical idea: that our physical world is not only described by mathematics, but that it is mathematics. He shows how this theory may provide answers to the nature of reality itself. This event was filmed at the Royal Institution on January 30 2014. The Ri is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution and Tumblr: http://ri-science.tumblr.com/ Our editorial policy: http://www.rigb.org/home/editorial-policy Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://bit.ly/RiNewsletter Product links on this page may be affiliate links which means it won't cost you any extra but we may earn a small commission if you decide to purchase through the link. #MathematicalUniverse, #MaxTegmark, #Cosmology, #PhysicsExplained, #TheoreticalPhysics

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