LAUSR.org creates dashboard-style pages of related content for over 1.5 million academic articles. Sign Up to like articles & get recommendations!

Guest Editorial: Truth, beauty, and supergravity

Photo by contentpixie from unsplash

I begin with a warning: theoretical physics is an edifice built over the centuries by some of mankind's greatest minds, using ever more complicated and sophisticated concepts and mathematics to… Click to show full abstract

I begin with a warning: theoretical physics is an edifice built over the centuries by some of mankind's greatest minds, using ever more complicated and sophisticated concepts and mathematics to cover phenomena on scales billions of times removed—in directions both bigger and smaller—from our human dimensions, where our simple intuition or primitive language cannot pretend to have any validity. So any popular discussion is necessarily impressionistic, being couched in terms of classical analogies that do not really apply. This warning label should be attached to all such accounts, the present one included. However, I have tried to focus here on an aspect that involves more human attributes of our subject.

Keywords: editorial truth; guest editorial; truth beauty; physics; beauty supergravity

Journal Title: American Journal of Physics
Year Published: 2017

Link to full text (if available)


Share on Social Media:                               Sign Up to like & get
recommendations!

Related content

More Information              News              Social Media              Video              Recommended



                Click one of the above tabs to view related content.