The Mystery of Our Mathematical Universe

Why is it that fundamental laws discovered through pure mathematics have been able to describe the behavior of our physical world with such precision? Given that the physical universe is comprised of mathematical properties, some have posited that mathematics is the language of the universe, whose laws reveal what appears to be a hidden order in the natural world. Physicist S. James Gates, Jr. and science writer Margaret Wertheim explore the uncanny ability of mathematics to reveal the laws of nature.

October 10, 2018
New York Academy of Sciences

[hmdshokri]

James Gates doesn't have that big ego of physicists, that's a rare thing!

[vjntstar]

54:28 "physics is a science invented by rational conscious minds to describe to themselves the order that they see around them"

[biller]

Our perceptions are based in illusions, which our brains pieced together in the mind’s eye through our multi sensory experience from being alive as we breathe in and breathe out.

[sourabhjogalekar]

they didnt talk about GODELs incompleteness theorem..

[chipparker]

I. Don't understand what they are talking about.

[jordanevers]

Sounds like philosophy, not at all like science .

[poondawg]

I don't like when physicists think they are the Morgan Freemans of physics.