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	Max Tegmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Max Tegmark (born 1967) is a Swedish-American cosmologist.
		Tegmark was born in Sweden, son of Karin Tegmark and Harold S Shapiro, studied at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and later received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
		Tegmark has also formulated the "Ultimate ensemble theory of everything", whose only postulate is that "all structures that exist mathematically exist also physically".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Max_Tegmark (301 words)

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		Tegmark and his collaborators suspect that roughly 33 percent is cold dark matter, a class of slow-moving matter that can be detected at this point only by the presence of its mysterious gravitational pull.
		Tegmark’s team used a three-dimensional map of the galaxy distribution in a sphere 4 billion light-years in diameter.
		Tegmark, Zaldarriaga and Hamilton’s research was funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation and the Penn Research Foundation.
	www.sciforums.com /newreply.php?do=newreply&p=86 (1184 words)

	Encyclopedia: Max Tegmark
		Max Tegmark born 1967 in Sweden to Karin Tegmark and Harold S Shapiro, is a cosmologist formerly at the University of Pennsylvania and now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an Associate Professor.
		Quantum suicide is a thought experiment which has been independently proposed in 1987 by Hans Moravec, in 1988 by Bruno Marchal and in 1998 by Max Tegmark that attempts to distinguish between the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics and the Everett many-worlds interpretation by means of a variation of...
		Tegmark has also formulated the "Ultimate Ensemble theory of everything", whose only postulate is that " all structures that exist mathematically exist also physically".
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Max-Tegmark (757 words)

	11/6/2001, Max Tegmark: Packard Award - Almanac, Vol. 48, No. 11
		Tegmark was one of 24 fellows selected this year from approximately 100 nominations submitted.
		Dr. Tegmark received a B.A. from the Stockholm School of Economics (1989), a B.S. from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (1990) and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994.
		Before joining Penn in 1999, Dr. Tegmark was a Hubble Fellow and member of the Institute for Advanced Study (1996-1999) and a research associate at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik in Munich (1994-1996).
	www.upenn.edu /almanac/v48/n11/Tegmark.html (291 words)

	MIT Physics Faculty: Max Tegmark
		Professor Tegmark's research is focused on precision cosmology, e.g., combining theoretical work with new measurements to place sharp constraints on cosmological models and their free parameters.
		Tegmark remained in New Jersey for a few years until an opportunity arrived to experience the urban northeast with an Assistant Professorship at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received tenure in 2003.
		He extended the east coast experiment and moved north of Philly to the shores of the Charles River (Cambridge-side), arriving at MIT in September 2004, along with his wife, fellow astrophysicist Angelica de Oliveira-Costa, and their two sons, Philip and Alexander.
	web.mit.edu /physics/facultyandstaff/faculty/max_tegmark.html (406 words)

	Brainstorms: Karl D. Stephan: Tegmark’s Parallel Universes: A Challenge to Intelligent Design?
		Tegmark’s main argument is that, far from being a shadowy, speculative corner of cosmology, the parallel-universe idea has been increasingly confirmed by recent experiments, and we should get used to it because it appears that it will be around for a while.
		Max may be a 'newcomer' but his ideas and the ideas of others in the area of multiple universes seems to have taken off quite succesfully to replace the Copenhagen interpretation.
		Max's thesis thus comes down to the idea that various S2 analogues can be formulated in S1, an idea already implicit in the fact that S1 distributes over S2 as a more general component of TOE (SCSPL) syntax, and his terminology simply replaces S1 with "the (level 4) multiverse".
	www.iscid.org /boards/ubb-get_topic-f-6-t-000351.html (6343 words)

	:: Universe or Multiverse :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Tegmark’s first work involved predicting the size of the earliest galaxies based on molecular physics.
		He has developed widely-used statistical techniques for analyzing cosmic microwave background and galaxy maps to measure cosmological parameters such as the amounts of ordinary matter and dark matter in the universe, the curvature of space, and the amplitudes of various types of density fluctuations that emerged in the first split second after the Big Bang.
		Many of Dr. Tegmark’s more than 100 scientific papers present ideas and data relevant to parallel universes, including evidence for infinite space and cosmological inflation, as well as for the possibility that the microwave background fluctuation level, the dimensionality of spacetime, and fundamental laws of physics can vary throughout a multiverse.
	www.templeton.org /humble03/part12.html (301 words)

	Scientific American Frontiers . The Dark Side of the Universe . Resources. Transcript \| PBS
		MAX TEGMARK That's because the bread is finite and we live in maybe an infinite space.
		MAX TEGMARK Well, what I love about, what I really love about Chuck's beach ball is that it represents this very basic fact that even though space itself may be infinite, we can only see a finite volume.
		MAX TEGMARK Chuck and his colleagues have stretched the contrast here by a factor of 100,000, to prevent it looking completely uniform.
	www.pbs.org /saf/1405/resources/transcript.htm (7825 words)

	Quantum Mechanics and the Multiverse II
		Tegmark distinguishes two perspectives when discussing a physical theory: the bird perspective or outside view of a mathematician, and the frog perspective or inside view of an observer living in the world described by the equations.
		Tegmark clarifies, “Given a mathematical structure, we will say that it has physical existence if any self-aware substructures (SAS) within it subjectively, from its frog perspective, perceives itself as living in a physically real world.” An SAS could be a human, but it could be something capable of some form of logical thought.
		Tegmark sees this same argument as consistent with assumption 2 since any conceivable theory of parallel universes can be described at Level IV.
	www.geocities.com /tdl.geo/multi2.html (13619 words)

	Max Tegmark's cosmic microwave background data analysis center: experiments
		Max Tegmark's cosmic microwave background data analysis center: experiments
		Likewise, the colored regions show where fluctuations in various foregrounds are expected to exceed those of Qflat=20 microkelvin CMB fluctuations in the cleanest 20% of the sky.
		The foregrounds are dust (red), point-sources (green), synchrotron (magenta) and free-free emission (cyan), and the estimates are based on Tegmark and Efstathiou 1996.
	space.mit.edu /home/tegmark/cmb/experiments.html (411 words)

	Expert About ma:Max
		This TC is gonna be a kickass showoff for Max Payne 2 and it's modscene.
		Max Headroom was one of the most innovative science fiction series ever produced for American television, an ambitious attempt to build upon the cyberpunk movement in science fiction literature.
		Their interest was only intensified by Max's move from science fiction to advertising and to talk television, where this non-human celebrity (commodity) traded barbed comments with other talk-show-made celebrities, such as Doctor Ruth, Robin Leach, Don King, and Paul Schaffer.
	www.expertsite.biz /dir/ma/Max.htm (1738 words)

	Quantum Biology
		In a paper titled 'The Importance of Quantum Decoherence in Brain Processes,' [1] Max Tegmark sought to prove that the brain is too warm to maintain the coherence required for quantum computation.
		From the results of his calculations, Tegmark claims that, "there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the current classical approach to neural network simulations." This statement contradicts the hypothesis that the brain functions as a quantum computer, originally proposed by Roger Penrose [2].
		Tegmark's claim was amplified by a recent report in Science beginning with the sentence, 'Sir Roger Penrose is incoherent, and Max Tegmark says he can prove it.' [3] However, the computations carried out by Tegmark relied on a value of 310K for the temperature in his model of the neuron.
	www.nanoword.net /library/weekly/aa062500a.htm (452 words)

	Brainstorms: Karl D. Stephan: Tegmark’s Parallel Universes: A Challenge to Intelligent Design?
		Faced with troublesome "anthropic" coincidences, Max wants to use a selection principle to extrapolate and concretely reify probabilistic resources in such measure as to explain the status quo merely by applying the laws of probability to first-order Markovian combinations of physical state and laws of physics.
		What is objectionable about Tegmark’s infinite universe (Level I) is not the fact that it appears to be supported by experimental data, but that he uses its infinity in a way that allows him to claim the real existence of all possible worlds.
		So if Max "allows for this possibility" even while stating that reality is isomorphic to a formal system - and this seems to be a fairly accurate description of what Max is doing - then that would be a problem, all right.
	www.iscid.org /boards/ubb-get_topic-f-6-t-000351-p-2.html (6092 words)

	Gnostic Friends Network - Writings - Gnostic Encyclopedia - Tegmark, davies, multiverses, multiverse, barrow, bostrom, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		If the space in our universe is infinite (if our universe stretches on forever, in other words), then every event which has ever occurred in the observeable universe is being repeated somewhere else about 10 to the 10 to the 28th light years-away.
		Alternately, our descendants may discover that real universes are easier to create than virtual ones; if so, then we should expect to see physical (as opposed to virtual) universes proliferate instead.
		Max Tegmark, Parallel Universes: Not just a staple of science fiction, other universes are a direct implication of cosmological observations, Scientific American, March 25 2003, http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000F1EDD-B48A-1E90-8EA5809EC5880000andref=sciamandchanID=sa006
	www.enemies.com /html/encyclopedia/2/multiverses.html (815 words)

	Is the Quantum Theory of Immortality valid
		Max Tegmark This immortality issue has bothered me too, and a number of other people also brought it up after this article came out.
		I agree with you that if the argument were flawless, I should expect to be the oldest guy on the planet (at least), severely discrediting the Everett hypothesis.
		James Higgo Max Tegmark, in a recent e-mail, pointed out that progressive loss of consciousness was a problem for the quantum theory of immortality.
	www.higgo.com /qti/rplaga.htm (2355 words)

	Parallel Universes
		As Max Tegmark, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, has recently noted, the concept of a multiverse “is grounded in well-tested theories such as relativity and quantum mechanics, and it fulfills both the basic criteria of an empirical science: it makes predictions, and it can be falsified.”
		Tegmark himself refers to this as a “radical Platonism” that asserts these mathematical structures are physically real, though they exist outside of time and space.
		As Tegmark explains, “If the weak interaction were much weaker, hydrogen would not exist; if it were much stronger, supernovae would fail to seed interstellar space with heavy elements.
	www.cliftonunitarian.com /toddstalks/paralleluniverses.htm (1972 words)

	Max Tegmark -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Max Tegmark -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		He is one of the proponents of the (Click link for more info and facts about quantum suicide) quantum suicide thought-experiment, and has come up with a nice mathematical argument for the (Click link for more info and facts about multiverse) multiverse.
		He has also been a strong critic of those who would infer a theory of consciousness from quantum effects, such as (Click link for more info and facts about Roger Penrose) Roger Penrose and (Click link for more info and facts about Stuart Hameroff) Stuart Hameroff.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/max_tegmark.htm (162 words)

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		Having a faulty machine gun or a death wish on a motorcycle, or a Tegmark experiment or whatever, there will always be some where you live, and therefore are conscious of, and some where you die, and therefore they are immaterial to you.
		Max thinks this is true but without giving a demonstration.
		That's why Tegmark's suicide experiment, although correct in the MWI, can not be considered as a proof of it, even in the worlds where the experimentalist survives.
	www.higgo.com /quantum/plaga.htm (7656 words)

	Anthropic Dimensionless Constants
		The most interesting of the advocates of (c) - Max Tegmark (formerly at the IAS, now at UPenn), proposes that any logically possible universe exists in the Multiverse.
		Max Tegmark has also shown that a 3-dimensional universe is necessary.
		Max Tegmark's papers on dimensionality and on a multiverse.
	www.starcourse.org /discussion/anthropic.html (842 words)

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		Max: Just off the top of my head I would say that there are six qualities that you must not only possess but possess in great measure.
		Max: Fourth is Discipline, Fifth is Bravery and Sixth is Compassion.
		Max: I might also add though, in your defense, that from what little you've shown me of Sarfatti's writings (I cannot judge his physical condition) I would say that he seems to be a C-student in every category except for Race Consciousness in which he undoubtedly merits an "A".
	www.stealthskater.com /Documents/Sarfatti_16.doc (16613 words)

	Metanexus Institute
		Perhaps the most extreme version of a multiverse has been suggested by Max Tegmark, a theoretical physicist at the University of Pennsylvania.
		There is thus a sliding scale of extravagance, ranging from multiplying worlds with the mathematical laws fixed, to multiplying laws within an overall mathematical scheme, to multiplying the mathematical possibilities too.
		The notion that our observable Universe is merely a small part of a larger "multiverse" is attracting increasing attention among physicists, particularly those working on cosmology (motivated by inflation theory and apparent fine-tuning) and string theory (motivated by multiple "vacuum" states).
	www.metanexus.net /metanexus_online/show_article.asp?5685 (1461 words)

	Uncle Jazzbeau’s Gallimaufrey: louche lapin
		I thought Tegmark did a thorough job of saying that his popular essay was concerned with a description of current cosmological speculation.
		Whether or not Tegmark's work constitutes a direct assault on the principle of specified complexity is a discussion for another time.
		Tegmark came across as the fun sort of guy you might meet at a party who has fun describing what he does.
	www.bisso.com /ujg_archives/000273.html (656 words)

	Quantum Theory of Immortality Menu
		From the Tegmark (1997) 'quantum suicide' experiment and the Stapp (1998) analysis of the quantum effects on calcium ions in neural synapses, MWI may imply a 'Quantum Theory of Immortality' (QTI).
		Tegmark (1997) describes the 'Quantum Suicide Experiment' as follows (I have simplified the text and removed the mathematical proofs):
		The QTI rests on some contentious premises: Deutsch's development of the post-Everett 'many-worlds' hypothesis; the Tegmark 'quantum suicide' experiment, Stapp's work on quantum effects on the brain and, most tentatively, the idea that the specific case of the 'quantum gun' can be generalised into any life-or-death scenario.
	www.higgo.com /quantum/qti.htm (1439 words)

	New light on dark energy (June 2004) - News - PhysicsWeb
		Yun Wang at the University of Oklahoma and Max Tegmark at the University of Pennsylvania performed numerical simulations on observational data from supernovae, the cosmic microwave background and galaxy clusters.
		Tegmark and Wang used a novel model-independent approach to measuring the dark-energy density.
		Moreover, the physicists calculated that if the dark energy density were to change with time, a big crunch or big rip could not occur for at least 50 billion years for models that allow such events.
	physicsweb.org /article/news/8/6/14 (435 words)

	Four Dimensional Life
		This line of thinking is extended in Max Tegmark's wonderful recent article "On the Dimensionality of Spacetime" appearing in the journal _Classical and Quantum Gravity_.
		Max Tegmark of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, suggests that all universes -- except for a (3+1)-dimensional universe -- may be "dead universes" in the sense they are devoid of observers.
		Tegmark believes that a universe will only be able to have observers if there is just one time dimension (i.e., _m_=1).
	uncletaz.com /library/scimath/4thdim/4thdimlife.html (1023 words)

	Max Tegmark's Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		M Tegmark & J Silk 1994, In Present and Future of the cosmic microwave background radiation, In Present and Future of the cosmic microwave background radiation, Eds.
		M Tegmark 1995, to appear in `Proceedings of the XXX Moriond meeting: Clustering in the universe, Ed.
		M Tegmark 1996, to appear in Proceedings of the XXXI Moriond meeting: Future CMB missions, Ed.
	www.theophys.kth.se /old/max/bibliography.html (706 words)

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