The Ownership of Science

[GaryAnderson]

I don’t want to get into math because I’m neither an expert on it nor a big fan but Max Tegmark who has spent his life on mathematics says that “the bottom or pure reality is mathematical”. This is of course a respectable view to me and I don’t mind him using math to arrive at that conclusion.

Professor Tegmark, like everyone else, is entitled to his views.  Problem is that mathematics, sometimes, does not describe reality.  Here's J.J. Thomson's, a Nobel laureate, model of the atom:

Plum pudding model.

His model is perfectly mathematical, but, it does not describe reality, at least in our Universe.  Professor Tegmark really should know better.

Hey, whether we like it or not, is not the point. Personally I don’t believe in that, but I respect the guy who has spent his life on Math and I absolutely don’t mind him at all using math to arrive at his conclusions.
I don’t condemn him for using math basically and I certainly don’t want to take math away from him.