A beautiful question: finding nature's deep design
Does the universe embody beautiful ideas? Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this "beautiful question." With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present. Wilczek's...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Does the universe embody beautiful ideas? Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this "beautiful question." With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, 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. In fact, every major advance in his career came from this intuition: to assume that the universe embodies beautiful forms, forms whose hallmarks are symmetry...harmony, balance, proportion...and economy. There are other meanings of "beauty," but 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. As he reveals here, this has been the heart of scientific pursuit from Pythagoras, the ancient Greek who was the first to argue that "all things are number," to Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and into the deep waters of twentieth-century physics. 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. 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....From publisher description |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-409) and index |
| Beschreibung: | 430 Seiten, 32 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln Illustrationen 25 cm |
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USER’S MANUAL xiii
THE QUESTION 1
PYTHAGORAS I: THOUGHT AND OBJECT 17
PYTHAGORAS II: NUMBER AND HARMONY 27
PLATO I: STRUCTURE FROM SYMMETRY—PLATONIC SOLIDS 37
PLATO II: ESCAPING THE CAVE 55
NEWTON I: METHOD AND MADNESS 77
NEWTON II: COLOR 91
NEWTON III: DYNAMIC BEAUTY 101
MAXWELL I: GOD’S ESTHETICS 117
MAXWELL II: THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION 141
PRELUDE TO SYMMETRY 165
QUANTUM BEAUTY I: MUSIC OF THE SPHERES 169
SYMMETRY I: EINSTEIN’S TWO-STEP 199
QUANTUM BEAUTY II: EXUBERANCE 209
SYMMETRY II: LOCAL COLOR 221
QUANTUM BEAUTY III: BEAUTY AT THE CORE OF NATURE 225
SYMMETRY III: EMMY NOETHER—TIME, ENERGY, AND SANITY
QUANTUM BEAUTY IV: IN BEAUTY WE TRUST
A BEAUTIFUL ANSWER? 321
Acknowledgments 329
Timelines 331
Terms of Art 339
Notes 397
Recommended Readi ng 407
Illustration Credits 411
Index 413
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