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Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and truth in physics



http://www.ted.com Armed with a sense of humor and laypeople’s terms, Nobel winner Murray Gell-Mann drops some knowledge on TEDsters about particle physics, asking questions like, Are elegant equations more likely to be right than inelegant ones?

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22 thoughts on “Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and truth in physics
  1. this so-called rule of self-assembly by random accidences is such a disease of human thinking. the talk was going so well then you skewed up royally. if you did your own research on that one you would stop believing in those mythical tales.

  2. This is still the simplest and most stimulating lecture I have ever experienced. It's been ten years now. Thanks so very much.

  3. He has a false concept of the supernatural. The natural does merge from the supernatural, God is not the ground of being, We do not need need God as a postulate God is not a thing, not a force. As for the “the accidents, or events he keeps talking about, what do believers think miracle to be but “accidents”, inexplicable as by chance. But in connections with our lives, signposts. An intuition not different in kind from Newton’s intuition following the fall of the apple from the Tree. A revelation. The central act of the central; faith, the Resurrection, was from the perspective of the apostles an “accident,” as improbable to them, as it would be to me for my mother were now to appear at the door at my house.

  4. But Sir what I believe is beauty of physics is when we get the feel of it. Mathematical interpretations just give us an understanding of the law but the theory gives us the feel of nature….

  5. Because the 'onion'' is almost symmetric and almost beautiful, therefore laws of physics are symmetric and beautiful! An enjoyable talk from a great physicist. But not knowing something does not mean it does not exist!

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