It's a truly remarkable fact that our deepest understanding of the material world is embodied in mathematics, often in concepts that were originated with some very different motivation. A good example ...

Collected by WGBH Forum Network, professor Max Tegmark visited Science for the Public to discuss his book, Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality. Tegmark talks about ...

Earlier this week, a cultural center in Red Hook, Brooklyn, played host to the sort of debate that’s usually reserved for smoke-filled dorm rooms: do we live in a multiverse, and, if so, is there ...

Does the idea of parallel universes really describe reality? (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S. Stolovy (Spitzer Science Center/Caltech) In Our Mathematical Universe Max Tegmark tries hard to make the ...

Having trouble understanding the Universe? Try this instead: imagine 10 500 possible universes, all different, and consider our place within this ensemble. Not randomly chosen, because our location ...