February 9, 2014
Those among us who loathed high school calculus might feel some trepidation at the premise in this week’s episode of Rationally Speaking. MIT Physicist Max Tegmark joins us to talk about his book “Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality” in which he explains the controversial argument that everything around us is made of math. Max, Massimo and Julia explore the arguments for such a theory, how it could be tested, and what it even means.