What Is Reality?

Today on Far Future Horizons we explore the fundamental nature of reality that underlies our existence with acclaimed BBC science series Horizon – What is reality?

There is a strange and mysterious world that surrounds us, a world largely hidden from our senses. The quest to explain the true nature of reality is one of the great scientific detective stories.

Professor Max Tegmark of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology holds the radical idea that reality is a mathematical structure

Clues have been pieced together from deep within the atom, from the event horizon of black holes, and from the far reaches of the cosmos. It may be that that we are part of a cosmic hologram, projected from the edge of the universe. Or that we exist in infinity of parallel worlds. Your reality may never look quite the same again.
BBC Horizon - What is Reality?

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