Our mathematical Universe

When:
January 30, 2014 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
2014-01-30T19:00:00+00:00
2014-01-30T20:30:00+00:00
Where:
Faraday Lecture Theatre, Royal Institution
The Royal Institution of Great Britain
21 Albemarle Street, Westminster, London W1S 4BS
UK
Cost:
£12
Contact:
020 7409 2992

Hubble deep fieldWhy is mathematics so spectacularly successful at describing the cosmos? In this talk, MIT physics professor Max Tegmark will propose a radical idea: that our physical world is not only described by mathematics, but that it is mathematics. He will show how this theory may provide answers to the nature of reality itself.