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#187 – Frank Wilczek: Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Complexity, Life & Aliens
Lex Fridman Podcast
A Beautiful Question You Ask Does the World of Body Beautiful Ideas
In the early days of Greek philosophy Plato had this model of atoms built out of the five perfectly symmetrical batonic solids. The idea of symmetry which is a driving inspiration in much of human art also turns out to be the dominant theme in modern fundamental physics. We are naturally evolved they're designed to enjoy beauty and to symmetry and the world has it and that's why we resonate with it.
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