Our Mathematical Universe · My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality by Tegmark, Max -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Preface 1 What Is Reality?

Not What It Seems What’s the Ultimate Question? The Journey Begins

Part One: Zooming Out 2 Our Place in Space

Cosmic Questions How Big Is Space? The Size of Earth Distance to the Moon Distance to the Sun and the Planets Distance to the Stars Distance to the Galaxies What Is Space?

3 Our Place in Time

Where Did Our Solar System Come From? Where Did the Galaxies Come From? Where Did the Mysterious Microwaves Come From? Where Did the Atoms Come From?

4 Our Universe by Numbers

Wanted: Precision Cosmology Precision Microwave-Background Fluctuations Precision Galaxy Clustering The Ultimate Map of Our Universe Where Did Our Big Bang Come From?

5 Our Cosmic Origins

What’s Wrong with Our Big Bang? How Inflation Works The Gift That Keeps on Giving Eternal Inflation

6 Welcome to the Multiverse

The Level I Multiverse The Level II Multiverse Multiverse Halftime Roundup

Part Two: Zooming In 7 Cosmic Legos

Atomic Legos Nuclear Legos Particle-Physics Legos Mathematical Legos Photon Legos Above the Law? Quanta and Rainbows Making Waves Quantum Weirdness The Collapse of Consensus The Weirdness Can’t Be Confined Quantum Confusion

8 The Level III Multiverse

The Level III Multiverse The Illusion of Randomness Quantum Censorship The Joys of Getting Scooped Why Your Brain Isn’t a Quantum Computer Subject, Object and Environment Quantum Suicide Quantum Immortality? Multiverses Unified Shifting Views: Many Worlds or Many Words?

Part Three: Stepping Back 9 Internal Reality, External Reality and Consensus Reality

External Reality and Internal Reality The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth Consensus Reality Physics: Linking External to Consensus Reality

10 Physical Reality and Mathematical Reality

Math, Math Everywhere! The Mathematical Universe Hypothesis What Is a Mathematical Structure?

11 Is Time an Illusion?

How Can Physical Reality Be Mathematical? What Are You? Where Are You? (And What Do You Perceive?) When Are You?

12 The Level IV Multiverse

Why I Believe in the Level IV Multiverse Exploring the Level IV Multiverse: What’s Out There? Implications of the Level IV Multiverse Are We Living in a Simulation? Relation Between the MUH, the Level IV Multiverse and Other Hypotheses Testing the Level IV Multiverse

13 Life, Our Universe and Everything

How Big Is Our Physical Reality? The Future of Physics The Future of Our Universe—How Will It End? The Future of Life The Future of You—Are You Insignificant?

Acknowledgments Suggestions for Further Reading Index A Note About the Author