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#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory
Lex Fridman Podcast
Aristotle's Idea of Spontaneous Synthesis Breaking
Aristotle thought that symmetry might explain why the Earth doesn't move. But Aristotle didn't agree with this argument and tried to argue being at the symmetric point may not be the preferred thing to do. This idea of spontaneous symmetry breaking is something we just used today to describe many physical phenomena.
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