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The Truth About Beauty in Physics

PBS Space Time · Season 2020 · Episode 29
The great physicist Hermann Weyl once said: "My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful, but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful." But is this actually good advice for doing physics?

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Season
2020
Episode
29
Air Date
08/Sep/2020
Air Time
12:00
Runtime
17 min

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The great physicist Hermann Weyl once said: "My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful, but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful." But is this actually good advice for doing physics?

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