Margaret Wertheim

Today online in @NYTScience there's a feature about my #crochetcoralreef project. Tomorrow it'll be a whole page in the print paper - a rare honor. nytimes.com/2024/01/15/sci…

Why does your email inbox explode? Digital stuff is just following a basic law of the universe. My new #substack post explains: open.substack.com/pub/margaretwe…

@skdh @skdh People Are thinking about this! Thats what Blade Runner is about. "Do androids dream of electric sheep" was published more than 50 years ago.

I worry AI might become conscious --- and we won't notice. youtube.com/watch?v=S8ttAl…

I decided to go off X. But the science world hasn't gone off and in these days of relentless self-promotion, or DIE, one doesn't really have a professional choice. So I'm back. Here's a link to my latest #Substack on how I avoided dinner with #Epstein margaretwertheim.substack.com/p/how-i-avoide…

What do physicists mean when they talk about "beauty"? My essay at Templeton Ideas is about the history of the idea that beauty can be a guide to new theories of physics and whether there are limits to how far "beautification" can take us. templeton.org/news/how-beaut…

Fantastic interview with @margaretwerth by @JesseDamiani covering a range of topics linking art and science/physics through the idea of Free Will in the "multiverse" How Are Coral Reefs & Curved Space Connected? The Multiverse & AI? - Mar... youtu.be/qFkaOZTUE-A?si… via @YouTube

My new Substack about my surreal mathematical connection with #Russian #scifi – "Me 'We' and the Pythagorean Theorem." margaretwertheim.substack.com/p/pythagorass-…

Pluto. Not a planet but still an icy beauty. Amazing achievement by @NASA to capture its landscape on film. youtube.com/watch?v=g1fPhh…

@Horganism terrific piece on fathering johnhorgan.org/cross-check/is…

@michaelshermer Thanks for the shoutout @michaelshermer I still get sent outsider physics theories regularly from citizens hoping I'll devote my next book to them!

The best book on "alternative theories of physics" is by @margaretwerth If you want to put Terrence Howard's theory into context this is a good place to start. The reason working scientists don't give much attention to them is not because they're elitists or that peer review is broken; it is simply that they don't have the time because there isn't one alternative theory, but hundreds of them. a.co/d/0bfQp0QL

@marcbel19406167 @michaelshermer I don't predict any such thing. There's NO Egyptian cosmology in my book.

@michaelshermer @margaretwerth Predicts the final theory will reconcile with Egyptian cosmology.

@Horganism thanks @Horganism we can only keep our hopes up that AI can contribute to a more sane equitable society

The ever-brilliant @margaretwerth on how AI can make the world a better place (and not in the way that Sam Altman envisions). margaretwertheim.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-a…

@DeLoachJW Hey thanks @DeLoachJW I'm actually beginning work on a follow-up book to my first one on cyberspactial "heaven". Sadly time has show how much our net-fantasies have intensified/are intensifying more!

@margaretwerth sorry for the delay but I’m going through Melvin Bragg back catalog & currently in the midst of listening to your IOT podcast on cyberspace/Heaven. I want to celebrate the position you were holding – w/ decades of cyber under our belt, you hit it right on the head.

my new #Substack post about "AI and the Audacity of Hope" - margaretwertheim.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-a…

#Eclipse2024 portrait of my #cat

A sea cucumber eating twitter.com/i/status/17691…

Just finished proposal for my new book about the history, science, philosophy of the term "Dimension". what does #dimension mean in #math #physics #DataScience #AI #art #culture.

Thanks Shankar. Now that the Great Barrier Reef is so threatened by the current El Niño event the value of corals is even greater, and their future ever less secure

@SpringerNature Why should we care about hyperbolic geometry? @margaretwerth has a great explanation: theconversation.com/corals-crochet…

This 3D-printed model of a half-torus #hyperbolic surface was made by #mathematician DavidBachman for our #CrochetCoralReef exhibition at @schlossmuseum_linz I commissioned Dave to make this as a 21st century analog to handmade lace doilies also in the show. #math meets #craft

My art is included in the exhibition "Seeing the Unseen: Math and Art" at @WignallMuseum - its a super-elegant show. #math #mathart theiff.org/current/events…