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#187 – Frank Wilczek: Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Complexity, Life & Aliens
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The Source of Symmetry
Our sense of what is beautiful is grounded in this idea of symmetry or the breaking of symmetry symmetry is at the core of our conception of beauty. When you have symmetry is also a very important means of construction so when you have for instance simple viruses that that need to construct their coat, they often take the form of platonic solids. The rules of development when you have simple rules and they go they work again and again you get symmetrical patterns which can be used as a recipe for generating fractals.
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