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Plus advent calendar door #20: It's all maths!

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Max Tegmark

Max Tegmark

If the characters in computer games attain consciousness one day, they probably won't believe that they are living in a world that's entirely described by the 0s and 1s of computer code. But something similar might go for us, too. Max Tegmark, a physicist at MIT, argues that the Universe we live in is not just very well described by mathematics, but that it is a mathematical structure. In this podcast he tells us about this idea.

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