About For Books A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design Review
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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.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, 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 twentiethcentury?physics. Though the ancients weren?t?right about everything, their ardent belief in the?music of the spheres has proved true down to the?quantum level. Indeed, Wilczek explores just how?intertwined our ideas about beauty and art are with?our scientific understanding of the cosmos.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?literally the same equations that govern musical?instruments and sound; the subatomic particles?that are responsible for most of our mass are?determined by simple geometric symmetries. The?universe itself, suggests Wilczek, seems to want to?embody beautiful and elegant forms. Perhaps this?force is the pure elegance of numbers, perhaps the?work of a higher being, or somewhere between.?Either way, we don?t depart from the infinite and?infinitesimal after all; we?re profoundly connected?to them, and we connect them. When we find that?our sense of beauty is realized in the physical world,?we are discovering something about the world, but?also something about ourselves.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.
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.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, 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 twentiethcentury?physics. Though the ancients weren?t?right about everything, their ardent belief in the?music of the spheres has proved true down to the?quantum level. Indeed, Wilczek explores just how?intertwined our ideas about beauty and art are with?our scientific understanding of the cosmos.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?literally the same equations that govern musical?instruments and sound; the subatomic particles?that are responsible for most of our mass are?determined by simple geometric symmetries. The?universe itself, suggests Wilczek, seems to want to?embody beautiful and elegant forms. Perhaps this?force is the pure elegance of numbers, perhaps the?work of a higher being, or somewhere between.?Either way, we don?t depart from the infinite and?infinitesimal after all; we?re profoundly connected?to them, and we connect them. When we find that?our sense of beauty is realized in the physical world,?we are discovering something about the world, but?also something about ourselves.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.
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