Beauty and truth in physics

I picture some Star Trek caricature talking to an alien. They are engaged in intergalactic diplomacy and we need our best scientists to help in the discussion. It's interesting knowing that we as a human race and they as an alien race, would be arguing using some of the same physical theories. Or rather, the laws of physics exists throughout the universe. This is kind of a surprising talk where Murray Gell-Mann discusses why beauty is a good criteria for choosing those physical theories.

... for some reason the embedded link isn't working in the post (only in the preview). So here's a link.

Posted by Timothy Washington on 2007.12.13| Original post

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