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“Our Mathematical Universe” by the cosmologist Max Tegmark.

https://www.amazon.com/Our-Mathematical-Universe-Ultimate-Re...

If anyone is interested in dark matter and dark energy I recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/Our-Mathematical-Universe-Ultimate-Re...

Written by this guy http://web.mit.edu/physics/people/faculty/tegmark_max.html is does a fantastic job of going from really simple concepts/experiments to blowing your mind.

> I wonder sometimes if you could make a religion out of all this

https://www.amazon.com/Our-Mathematical-Universe-Ultimate-Re...

Certainly some do. Max Tegmark would be an example[1]. He posts a sort of "all possible universes with all possible laws". (I think "possible" in this context roughly means mathematically consistent.)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Our-Mathematical-Universe-Ultimate-Re...

- Our Mathematical Universe (http://www.amazon.com/Our-Mathematical-Universe-Ultimate-Rea...)

- The Martian (http://www.amazon.com/The-Martian-Novel-Andy-Weir-ebook/dp/B...)

- Zero to One (http://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804...)

- The Hard Thing About Hard Things (http://www.amazon.com/The-Hard-Thing-About-Things/dp/0062273...)

Beg to differ:

http://www.amazon.com/Our-Mathematical-Universe-Ultimate-Rea...

⬐ boomlinde

I'm sure that if you meant to argue with anything I said, you'd make a greater effort than posting a link to a book you enjoyed. But just in case: I believe that mathematics is able to describe very fundamental concepts of our universe. That doesn't mean that everything in the world _is_ mathematics, for the same reasons that the fact that you can describe many things in spoken words don't make them spoken words.