![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Galileo famously stated that our Universe is a “grand book” written in the language of mathematics. ![]() The Higgs Boson was predicted with the same tool as the planet Neptune and the radio wave: with mathematics. I find it very appropriate that Douglas Adams joked about 42, because mathematics has played a striking role in our growing understanding of our Universe. What's the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything? In Douglas Adams' science-fiction spoof “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, the answer was found to be 42 the hardest part turned out to be finding the real question. Excerpted with permission from Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality, by Max Tegmark. ![]()
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