![]() ![]() Indeed, in 1998, Max Tegmark, then an up-and-coming young cosmologist at Princeton, received an email from a senior colleague warning him off multiverse research: “Your crackpot papers are not helping you,” it said. The Financial Times review credits Tegmark as the “academic celebrity” behind the turn of physics to the multiverse:Īs recently as the 1990s, most scientists regarded the idea of multiple universes as wild speculation too far out on the fringe to be worth serious discussion. ![]() In this book he indulges his inner crank, describing in detail an uttery empty vision of the “ultimate nature of reality.” What’s perhaps most remarkable about the book is the respectful reception it seems to be getting, see reviews here, here, here and here. Tegmark’s career is a rather unusual story, mixing reputable science with an increasingly strong taste for grandiose nonsense. ![]() There’s also an old blog posting here about the same ideas. I’ve written a review of the book for the Wall Street Journal, which is now available (although now behind a paywall, if not a subscriber, you can try here). Max Tegmark has a new book out, entitled Our Mathematical Universe, which is getting a lot of attention. ![]()
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