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Season 2025 Episode
- Season 2023 The NEW SCIENCE of Moon Formation
- Season 2023 What If The Universe Is Math?
- Season 2023 What If Alien Life Were Silicon-Based?
- Season 2023 How Earth REALLY Moves Through the Galaxy
- Season 2023 How Does The Nucleus Hold Together?
- Season 2023 What If Space And Time Are NOT Real?
- Season 2023 What’s Your Brain’s Role in Creating Space & Time?
- Season 2023 What If Black Holes ARE Dark Energy?
- Season 2023 How Much Of The Universe Can Humanity Ever See?
- Season 2023 How Far Beyond Earth Could Humanity Spread?
- Season 2023 NEW DISCOVERY About Supermassive Black Holes Explained!
- Season 2023 Understanding One of Physics' Most Challenging Topics!
- Season 2023 Finding Alien Spacecraft with Gravitational Waves
- Season 2023 Is 'Perpetual Motion' Possible with Superfluids?
- Season 2023 Can We Move PLANET EARTH Across the Universe?
- Season 2023 What Supernova Distance Would Trigger Mass Extinction?
- Season 2023 Did AI Prove Our Proton Model WRONG?
- Season 2023 Does Axionic Dark Matter Bind Galaxies Together?
- Season 2023 What If The Speed of Light is NOT CONSTANT?
- Season 2023 Was the Gravitational Wave Background Finally Discovered?!?
- Season 2023 Do We Need a NEW Dark Matter Model?
- Season 2023 Did JWST Discover Dark Matter Stars?
- Season 2023 What If Space is NOT Empty?
- Season 2023 What NEW SCIENCE Would We Discover with a Moon Telescope?
- Season 2023 Are Room Temperature Superconductors IMPOSSIBLE?
- Season 2023 Are Pilot Wave & Many Worlds THE SAME Theory?
- Season 2023 The Farthest Star Ever Seen!
- Season 2023 Why Did Attosecond Physics Win the NOBEL PRIZE?
- Season 2023 How Will We (Most Likely) Discover Alien Life?
- Season 2023 What If Gravity is NOT Quantum?
- Season 2023 Does Many Worlds Explain Quantum Probabilities?
- Season 2023 What if Humans Are NOT Earth's First Civilization? | Silurian Hypothesis
- Season 2023 What If There's A Black Hole Inside The Sun? | Hawking Stars
PBS Space Time - Season 2023 Episode 2 What If The Universe Is Math?
10.00 48 minutes In his essay “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics”, the physicist Eugine Wigner said that “the enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious”. This statement was inspired by the observation that so many aspects of the physical world seem to be describable and predictable by mathematical equations to incredible precision especially as quantum phenomena. But quantum phenomena have no subjective qualities and have questionable physicality. They seem to be completely describable by only numbers, and their behavior precisely defined by equations. In a sense, the quantum world is made of math. So does that mean the universe is made of math too? If you believe the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis then yes. And so are you.
