How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
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Channel: Santa Fe Institute
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Length: 89min 9sec (5349 seconds)
Published: Tue Aug 28 2018
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i feel like the implication of the title wasn't sufficiently argued. there was no indication in the talk, that current theories are fundamentally "bad" or even "not the best we can come up with", as there seems to be no replacement criterion for elegance/beauty. given the choice between two otherwise **equally valid** ideas, why should we choose the more complicated or "ugly" one? the main criterion of "correctness" (which i assume is not in question) usually trumps any aesthetic arguments (the speaker gives the empty universe example in the beginning of the talk).
the only "serious" criticism (as in, has a significant impact on what is researched or not) i could hear, was in the "publish or perish" argument regarding the politics of publication (no alliteration intended), which imho should be connected far more closely to the economics of how the field is monetized, than the motivation to find more "beautiful" theories.