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#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Mathematics More Dangerous Than All Physical Ideas?
I would say that mathematics can lead us astray as much as all physical ideas. I'm just saying that we should keep an open mind about the role the math plays, not to be antagonistic towards it and not to over, over welcoming it. What about looking at a particular characteristics of both physical ideas and mathematical ideas which is beauty? You think beauty leads us astray, meaning, and you offline showed me a really nice puzzle that illustrates this idea a little bit. Maybe you can speak to that or another example where beauty makes it tempting for us to assume that the law and the theory that we found is actually one that perfectly describes reality.
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