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Love & Math: Edward Frenkel (#281)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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Is There a Multiverse in String Theory?

In string theory and inflationary cosmology there's a notion of a multiverse. Could it be that in some of those universes the laws of math are different? I think again, I don't know. That mathematics is universal in some sense. So that even if there are many universes, in fact, I used to do this thing. I would sometimes start give talks and I would talk about this universality of mathematics. And I guess now is become sort of much more much closer to a realm of possibilities.

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