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#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is It the Chicken or the Egg?
We find symmetry beautiful and the breaking of symmetry beautiful. Somehow symmetry is a fundamental part of how we conceive of beauty at all layers of reality, which is interesting. And our sense of beauty seems to incorporate a lot of things that are essential for us to solve some difficult problems like symmetry. We don't have a deep understanding of why we get attracted to symmetry. Why do laws of nature seem to have symmetries underline them?
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