Beauty And Mathematics | Professor Alexander Pruss
The Thomistic Institute
00:00
The Role of Constants in Physics
I'm curious to what degree the surprise it doesn't apply to the various beautiful, mathematically beautiful physical equations that you gave earlier. The role that we might think the constants present in some of those equations play philosophically. We might think something like the universal gravitational constant, might be considered as reverse engineer and so as together, the beautiful mathematical expression with r squared and denominator. But I'd wonder what you think to a line of reasoning that says, well, of course, these beautiful physical theories are just that mathematically beautiful.
Transcript
Play full episode
