The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets by Graham FarmeloMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
"...Over the decades, drawn from differing cultures and backgrounds, these colorful thinkers described here brought about a happy reconciliation:
In the 1950s the two groups were living in different worlds, he [Freeman Dyson], but he is now happy to seem them regularly talking together, exchanging ideas, and occasionally working on the same problems. ‘Pure mathematics and theoretical physicists are now very much in the same world’, he says, but it’s not clear how it relates to the real one.’
The author lays out a half dozen predictions on how the ‘real one’ will emerge from the fruits of this cooperation, such as “Space and time are not fundamental concepts they emerge from quanta of some kind.” Whether his predictions pan out or not, I hope he use the same storytelling skills, research, and simplifying explanations to tell us in future works the how and why of it all...."
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