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  • Tegmark’s MUH is the hypothesis that our external physical reality is a mathematical structure.[3] That is, the physical universe is not merely described by mathematics, but is mathematics — specifically, a mathematical structure.

    Look, I only heard about this concept, so maybe there’s more to it, but branches of mathematics are just a set of rules that we create.

    Sometimes these rules can be applied to real systems, in our reality, and that helps to describe and understand the universe.

    But it’s totally possible to come up with infinite nonsensical, useless mathematical systems that have nothing to do with the universe. The existence of these doesn’t mean that we have or could rewrite reality.














  • That is a good question, but I suspect if you tried this in real life it would still show static.

    • The waves are amplified with a circuit that attempts to find a signal even if it’s very weak (so you can get a picture even if you’re close or very far from the tv station)
    • At a certain point, the electromagnetic field from the running TV itself would start to get picked up

    I suspect a better thought experiment would be if you just disconnected the input and amplification circuit entirely from the CRT tube, in which case you would probably just get white as the electron beam scans back and forth without any modulation.