Nobel Prizewinner Frank Wilczek: Beautiful Questions, God, Nobels, Imposters & the Power of Beauty (#101)

Does the universe embody beautiful ideas? Join me on a cosmic
journey with Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek. We will embark on a
voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the
present. Wilczek’s groundbreaking work in quantum physics was
inspired by his intuition to look for a deeper order of beauty in
nature. This is the deep logic of the universe—and it is no
accident that it is also at the heart of what we find aesthetically
pleasing and inspiring.  Wilczek is hardly alone among great
scientists in charting his course using beauty as his compass. As
he reveals in A Beautiful Question, this has been the heart of
scientific pursuit from Pythagoras and the ancient belief in the
music of the spheres to Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and
into the deep waters of twentieth-century physics. Wilczek brings
us right to the edge of knowledge today, where the core insights of
even the craziest quantum ideas apply principles we all understand.
The equations for atoms and light are almost the same ones that
govern musical instruments and sound; the subatomic particles that
are responsible for most of our mass are determined by simple
geometric symmetries.  Gorgeously illustrated, A Beautiful
Question is a mind-shifting book that braids the age-old quest for
beauty and the age-old quest for truth into a thrilling synthesis.
It is a dazzling and important work from one of our best thinkers,
whose humor and infectious sense of wonder animate every page. Yes:
The world is a work of art, and its deepest truths are ones we
already feel, as if they were somehow written in our souls. 
Praise for A Beautiful Question: “An expertly curated tour across
2,500 years of philosophy and physics . . . [Frank Wilczek] has
accomplished a rare feat: Writing a book of profound humanity based
on questions aimed directly at the eternal.” —The Wall Street
Journal  “Both a brilliant exploration of largely uncharted
territories and a refreshingly idiosyncratic guide to developments
in particle physics.” —Nature Get it here: https://amzn.to/3oh48uZ
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1/12/21 One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten
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offers the reader a simple yet profound exploration of reality
based on the deep revelations of modern science. With clarity and
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concepts that form our understanding of what the world is and how
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