Scientific American sent me a short, special report addition to their magazine this week. Apparently, physics predicts upwards of four different levels of parallel universes and this pamphlet was going to explain it to me. It didn't. All it really did was make me have this face:
However, I did learn something interesting about myself and I now want to pose the question to you.
Are you Aristotelian or Platonic?
Aristotelian: "Physical reality is fundamental and mathematic[s] is ... a useful approximation."
Platonic: "Mathematics is the true reality and observers perceive it imperfectly."
So, which do you believe? Our reality of gravity, planetary movement and energy is something math will only be able to approximate (Aristotelian) or that we are all governed by math, but we don't completely understand it all yet (Platonic)?
I am Platonic.
Reference: Tegmark, Max. "Parallel Universes: A Scientific American Special Report." Scientific American (2009).
PDF Copy: http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/PDF/multiverse_sciam.pdf
No comments:
Post a Comment