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To: InterceptPoint

They’re utilizing mathematics derived from M-Theory exploration. That’s a start, and if I recall correctly, I think there are at least two other such studies.

Something said by the late great physicist Paul Dirac has always sortta haunted me: “It is more important to have beauty in one’s equations than to have them fit experiment.”

Beauty in the sense of symmetry.

I believe that neither beauty nor truth can exist, one without the other.

Funny, isn’t it?, that these are also characteristics usually associated with God.


19 posted on 03/25/2014 12:08:09 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug

Something said by the late great physicist Paul Dirac has always sortta haunted me: “It is more important to have beauty in one’s equations than to have them fit experiment.”
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That is a really interesting comment. Being a kind person, I assume that Dirac didn’t believe that a pretty theory with pretty equations falsified by experiment had any value.

But in rejecting complex descriptions of the workings of nature I agree with his comment. Einstein didn’t sum an infinite trigonometric series to express the relationship between the speed of light, mass and energy. Somehow nature has conjured a way to express its behavior using various very simple combinations of mathematical symbols. Dirac wanted to find those symbols and the associated arrangement of those symbols that explain natural phenomena. An admiral goal.


20 posted on 03/25/2014 5:46:53 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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