From Max Tegmark's new paper on the Theory of Everything
Dept. of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
I advocate an extreme “shut-up-and-calculate” approach to physics, where our external physical reality is assumed to be purely mathematical.
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Mathematics has played a striking role in these suc-
cesses. The idea that our universe is in some sense math-
ematical goes back at least to the Pythagoreans of an-
cient Greece, and has spawned centuries of discussion
among physicists and philosophers. In the 17th century,
Galileo famously stated that the universe is a “grand
book” written in the language of mathematics. More
recently, the physics Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner ar-
gued in the 1960s that “the unreasonable effectiveness of
mathematics in the natural sciences” demanded an ex-
planation.
Here, I will push this idea to its extreme and argue that
our universe is not just described by mathematics — it is
mathematics. While this hypothesis might sound rather
abstract and far-fetched, it makes startling predictions
about the structure of the universe that could be testable
by observations.
1 comment:
Mathematics just as such never explaied anything. Even with the forces you need the the idea of attraction and repulsion, which can't ne mathematically described just as such.
Then suppose that a cause acts in addtion to the forces just so that matter remains organised as atoms and molecules. How could you mathematically describe such a cause?
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