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JWST and the sorites paradox
Where does beauty end and ugliness begin? Continue reading
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Debating the business of beauty in ‘Dreams of a Final Theory’
In his book Dreams of a Final Theory, Nobel-Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg discusses the various aspects of the journey toward a unifying theory in fundamental physics. One crucial aspect is the aesthetic of such a theory, and Weinberg’s principal contention … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetics, beauty, critical exponents, Dreams of a Final Theory, framling, randomness, renormalization, Speaker for the Dead, Steven Weinberg, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, thermal demagnetization, utlänning, varelse
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On the fear of the disgusting
Disgusting things are broken, unnatural manifestations of beauty in an otherwise beautiful world. If anything, isn’t it the symmetrical and the alluring that we must fear for their full mastery over chaos? Disgusting things are defeated things. With our fear … Continue reading
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