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The Speculations of Max Tegmark: Mathematics and Multiverses in Studio A

Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations

Tuesday, February 18, 2014 at 6:30 PM

Belmont Media Center in Studio A


Max Tegmark, PhD
Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Max
Tegmark has a proud reputation as a fearless and unconventional thinker.


In this evening's discussion, to be recorded in BMC's Studio A for
television, Dr. Tegmark talks about his new book, which presents
fundamental reality as a mathematical entity, his well-known concept of
multiple universes, and also how his concepts have developed and what it
takes to think outside the box at a time when many scientists are
fearful of the risk.

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In addition to his own ideas, he describes how many of the
conceptual leaps in science --certainly in physics and cosmology-- were
initially ignored or rejected.


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