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Robbert Dijkgraaf on Exploring Quantum Reality

The Joy of x

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Is Beauty the Siren Song in Physics?

There's a little bit of tension, though, in science between beauty and truth. Beauty can be very mathematical. And there are possibilities that beauty could be the siren song for us in physics. In some sense, i think the art here is to cherish these pieces of mathematics,. But no, not, ah, try to use them, so to say, force, force this upon nature.

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