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dgellow · 2019-02-05
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“Our Mathematical Universe” by the cosmologist Max Tegmark.
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Mathematical-Universe-Ultimate-Re...
mirceal · 2018-12-05
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If anyone is interested in dark matter and dark energy I recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/Our-Mathematical-Universe-Ultimate-Re...
Written by this guy http://web.mit.edu/physics/people/faculty/tegmark_max.html is does a fantastic job of going from really simple concepts/experiments to blowing your mind.
canjobear · 2017-07-07
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> I wonder sometimes if you could make a religion out of all this
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Mathematical-Universe-Ultimate-Re...
lomnakkus · 2017-01-31
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Certainly some do. Max Tegmark would be an example[1]. He posts a sort of "all possible universes with all possible laws". (I think "possible" in this context roughly means mathematically consistent.)
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Our-Mathematical-Universe-Ultimate-Re...
mksm · 2015-10-29
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- Our Mathematical Universe (http://www.amazon.com/Our-Mathematical-Universe-Ultimate-Rea...)
- The Martian (http://www.amazon.com/The-Martian-Novel-Andy-Weir-ebook/dp/B...)
- Zero to One (http://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804...)
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things (http://www.amazon.com/The-Hard-Thing-About-Things/dp/0062273...)
playing_colours · 2014-08-29
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When I became interested in modern physics theories of both quantum and universe level, I found the following book [0] by Max Tegmark to have very good explanations regarding origin and nature of the universe, quantum mechanics, and just interesting stories / facts from the life of physicists.
[0] http://www.amazon.com/Our-Mathematical-Universe-Ultimate-Rea...
Not 100% but you can get a reasonable idea but looking. The God hypothesis seems unlikely for a variety of reasons such as the presence of evil and why there are trillions of stars if it was made for us.
Simulations are normally quite imperfect - you can see the pixels etc. The physics of our universe is hard to simulate - we can't even do one proton reasonably well yet no glitches are seen in physics experiments so that hypothesis seems unlikely too.
Personally I think it's maths. The deeper in physics you go the more it looks like maths. See https://www.amazon.co.uk/Our-Mathematical-Universe-Ultimate-... for example.