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PBS Space Time - Season 2023 Episode 2 What If The Universe Is Math?

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In his essay “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics”, the physicist Eugine Wigner said that “the enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious”. This statement was inspired by the observation that so many aspects of the physical world seem to be describable and predictable by mathematical equations to incredible precision especially as quantum phenomena. But quantum phenomena have no subjective qualities and have questionable physicality. They seem to be completely describable by only numbers, and their behavior precisely defined by equations. In a sense, the quantum world is made of math. So does that mean the universe is made of math too? If you believe the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis then yes. And so are you.

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First Air Date: Feb 11, 2015

Last Air date: Dec 19, 2024

Season: 12 Season

Episode: 397 Episode

Runtime: 26 minutes

IMDb: 10.00/10 by 1.00 users

Popularity: 17.263

Language: English

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