![]() But if so, he’s a century ahead of his time. ![]() So perhaps it will turn out that there’s a sense in which Tegmark is right about all this. Of course, the math now in use hasn’t succeeded in answering all of science’s big questions either. So in some way the “real” underlying mathematical reality must somehow be simpler than most of the math that scientists actually use. ![]() He further requires doing away with infinity, as math with infinities is subject to the Gödel undecidability theorem, which demonstrates that mathematical systems of sufficient complexity cannot be completely consistent. To believe, you need to accept the “block universe” view of spacetime, in which time and change are illusions because all spacetime already exists, just sitting there. Tegmark’s case is not entirely convincing. Knopf edition, in English Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (2015 edition) Open Library It looks like youre offline. ![]() And the last chapter veers into a rant about ways human civilization could self-destruct, having virtually nothing to do with the rest of the book at all. Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark, 2015, Vintage, Alfred A. The first half of the book is a semiautobiographical crash course in modern cosmology, of which Tegmark is a prominent practitioner. But it’s unfortunately more than 200 pages into the book before he actually begins to discuss his point. It’s fascinating speculation, presented engagingly. ![]()
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