Our Mathematical Universe: Brian Greene & Max Tegmark

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Join us for a spirited conversation between Brian Greene and Max Tegmark exploring the controversial possibility that mathematics and reality are one and the same.

This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

[AlphaFoxDelta]

Brian... your humility and grace here truly warms my heart... you are certainly and awesome human being... I have bought your books and enjoyed them immensely, may the universe smile on you!

[beaconterraoneonline]

The nice thing about any conversation with Max is … he can’t go long without a smile.

[suuiiiii]

I cant be the only one who falls asleep wakes up and something like this is playing....

[NJovceski]

Imagine being at a dinner party with these guys. I could have these discussions for hours.

Thank you for sharing with the world
✌️😎🇦🇺

[marykarensolomon]

I loved the show two weeks ago, and I was thrilled to see Max and you, Brian, in an hour-long conversation about math and reality. Thank you very much!

[ys]

I'm so grateful that you offer these discussions to the world 💙 it's so interesting and thought provoking, thank you so much!

[nasirgondal]

Professor Greene is a world treasure. I hope he comes up with the theory of everything, and wins a Nobel prize.

[dar_jada]

I have such gratitude that these discussions are made available to us. Thank you for your considerable efforts.

[airwaycherry]

You two are great! Watching those wheels chug and churn is (awesome). Brian, you are amazingly objective. You seem to have this ability to resist comfortable ownership of an idea, at least to a point that your willingness to ask questions and continue learning is obvious.

Max, you are great too, from a layman, your love of difficult questions definitely has not gone away. You smile with absolute excitement when you hear ideas. What a blessing you are for us. Both you and Brian, I want to make so clear, are appreciated so much for your abilities to Utilize Math to Discover, at the same time bring it down to Earth for us to enjoy.

[NoLuvHoz]

Max Tegmark: Can't you see? It's all mathematics, bro!
Brian Greene: When you're a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. And mathematics is just a really awesome hammer, my dude.

[AJ-oydi]

Two brilliant people, such a pleasure to listen in on a great conversation.

[karinazdanovich]

I loved the talk a whole lot! Very thought-provoking. You both have brilliant minds, thank you 🙂 🌼

[roberthaley]

Additionally, I've always considered mathematics as a language, very special and distinct from other languages in that it can and does completely quantify things. As a formal logic, we see that mathematics is as real as logic itself.

[lives]

I'm in love with the Science Festival because it exposes the magic of science. It exposes the garden where the incubation of theory takes shape. A passerby would call the roots of all of these conversations boil down
philosophy but, it is a laboratory of the the mind that relentlessly pushes the confines of the human condition in the pursuit of persective. It is a beautiful contorsion for the purpose of a establishing a measurable quantity. To me it is what defines science itself and I am grateful for having my eyes opened and stretched beyond my passing by.

[Mr.eTrain]

Thank you Brian and Max for a wonderful conversation and letting us ride along! Love all that you do and share.
My title suggestion for next show: “Language - evolutions expression of thought”

[stoneysdead]

Programs like this are so important, I don't think Brian understand show important. When I was younger, I was fascinated by higher mathematics, but also intimidated by it. By "higher" mathematics I just mean anything more intense than general math- algebra, trig., calc., etc.- So when I got old enough to actually take it and found out I was actually very good at it- I was so proud of that fact. Neither of my parents had ever studied anything more than general math so- it was like Greek to them and the rest of my family- who were all farmers and blue collar laborers- which made me feel special. But I hated the fact that I was just memorizing steps and didn't really understand how to apply any of the math I was learning. Then along comes physics- and man I fell in love immediately. It was math in motion- I could see it, touch it- it was real. And now some of the "rules" I had memorized starting making sense to me- but it was just a taste of the real thing. We didn't have a teacher who could teach anything past the bare, bare minimum of Newtonian physics. Looking back I feel so sorry for the teachers I did have because they knew that I was hungry for it, they knew that if I had someone to teach me- to inspire me- that this could be just the beginning. But what could they do- they simply weren't qualified, and the school felt there weren't enough of us kids who progressed far enough past general math to justify having a course like this. In other words- the school sold their kids short. And this wasn't back in the 60s or something- I graduated in 1991. But I went to school in North Alabama- a very small, rural place- with a history of blue collar working ppl who didn't go to college or value education much. Anyway- had there been programs like this back then- I honestly think my life would've gone a whole different direction. I did go to college- but I didn't graduate. Don't want to get into why because this would be far too long of a post then- already is. But you guys have to keep going- if you inspire even one kid like me to go on and try- go for it, that they can do it- it's so worth it. It's very hard when you come from such small, humble beginnings to see yourself as being capable of contributing to such huge questions.

[spaceinyourface]

This is the most exciting conversation I've watched for years..I love you guys & have followed you both for ages now . Great stuff 👏👍👌🙌😀

[sedenshop]

Thank you Brian and Max for sharing your thoughts on this topic. Looking forward for your next topic "Language painting thoughts"

[gilbertengler]

Extremely interesting! Many thanks.
We as human beings, but also complex animals, have to integrate thousands of signals (besides basic stimuli like vision, sound, smell ....) permanently almost instantaneously and our brain HAS to make a kind of summary with a specific outcome of all of that information in order to allow a being to position itselfs in this new context. Of coarse we have to perceive this integrated message otherwise it all would make no sense and we would simply not be aware that we "are". To be conscious is thus, according to me, an absolute must to be able to survive and it becomes gradually more complex when you clime up in the tree of animal hierarchie. Intelligence is something completely different. Often one says that being extremely logic is a kind of measure for intelligence; but there are other forms of intelligence in which for example making a useful connection between very distant topics helps to quickly solve a problem. Solving the mystery of consciousness is of great importance, but intelligence is so relative since soooo may intelligent people are stupid.

[RogueStatusQVX]

2 of my favorite people to listen to, and when put together... such a lovely conversation