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The Universe Is Made Of Mathematics

Sam Woolfe recounts the mathematical metaphysics of physicist Max Tegmark.

Max Tegmark is a Swedish-American cosmologist currently teaching at MIT. He has made important contributions to physics, such as measuring dark matter and understanding how light from the early universe informs the Big Bang model of the universe’s origins. He has also proposed his own Theory of Everything. His Theory of Everything is known as the Ultimate Ensemble or by the more attention-grabbing name, the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis. This hypothesis can be summed up in one phrase: “Our external physical reality is a mathematical structure.

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