It's a truly remarkable fact that our deepest understanding of the material world is embodied in mathematics, often in concepts that were originated with some very different motivation. A good example ...

Collected by WGBH Forum Network, professor Max Tegmark visited Science for the Public to discuss his book, Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality. Tegmark talks about ...

Earlier this week, a cultural center in Red Hook, Brooklyn, played host to the sort of debate that’s usually reserved for smoke-filled dorm rooms: do we live in a multiverse, and, if so, is there ...

Having trouble understanding the Universe? Try this instead: imagine 10 500 possible universes, all different, and consider our place within this ensemble. Not randomly chosen, because our location ...

Quantum mechanics says objective reality doesn’t exist, that instead all we see are probabilities collapsing into one particular configuration… and all other possible realities might just exist ...

The idea that reality or ‘Creation’ may contain multiple worlds is an old one. Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and numerous other religions have been contemplating the concept of multiple ...