Episode · StarTalk Radio · 2021-03-25
Books mentioned on StarTalk Podcast: Cosmic Queries – Multiverse Madness with Max Tegmark
Neil deGrasse Tyson discussed Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark and Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Our Mathematical Universe
Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark is a popular science exploration of cosmology, reality, and the hypothesis that the physical universe is fundamentally mathematical in nature.
Discussed“at least one of my favorites is our mathematical universe where you argue that everything is math and if everything is math someone could have programmed it that way and so a brilliant exercise there and of course life 3.0 um where you're exploring the future of what we even think of as life and i've enjoyed both of those”
Where to get it
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Life 3.0
Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark is a bestselling exploration of artificial general intelligence and the future of life in an automated age.
Discussed“at least one of my favorites is our mathematical universe where you argue that everything is math and if everything is math someone could have programmed it that way and so a brilliant exercise there and of course life 3.0 um where you're exploring the future of what we even think of as life and i've enjoyed both of those”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Cosmic Queries
“cosmic queries inspired by this very format and they're questions that people just ask that are so deep and so interesting and not all of them can we get to it on a podcast and so we have to like take it to the book and so there's a whole section in that book on the multiverse”
Plugged Cosmic Queries
“is uh you you post you posted something it's online which is a very clean and clear exposition of the multiple levels of the multiverse and that's what we referenced when we included when we fleshed out our section on the multiverse in cosmic query”