Everything in our world is purely mathematical -- including you

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Universe - Laws of Nature - Physics - New York Times



Dr. Tegmark maintains that we are part of a mathematical structure, albeit one gorgeously more complicated than a hexagon, a multiplication table or even the multidimensional symmetries that describe modern particle physics. Other mathematical structures, he predicts, exist as their own universes in a sort of cosmic Pythagorean democracy, although not all of them would necessarily prove to be as rich as our own.

"Everything in our world is purely mathematical -- including you," he wrote in New Scientist.

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