depth first search » ted http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/blog “We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done." Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The State of Physics http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/blog/2007/12/14/the-state-of-physics/ http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/blog/2007/12/14/the-state-of-physics/#comments Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:57:25 +0000 JS http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/2007/12/14/the-state-of-physics/ A talk on why beauty is such a good selection criteria for discovering correct physical law. A quote:

Life can emerge from physics and chemistry plus a lot of accidents.

I will say that mathematical beauty is in part self fulfilling, since theories which are beautiful (simple) are more likely to be discovered before grossly complex ones. Are we at the stage where the only remaining theories in physics are grossly complex?

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