Freeman Dyson - How Does Beauty Color the Universe?

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Channel: Closer To Truth · 2017 · Education

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What do scientists mean when they call the laws and regularities of nature beautiful? On the largest supra-cosmic scales, and on the smallest sub-atomic scales, why do scientists use beauty as a touchstone to assess their theories?

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