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Rationally Speaking #211 - Sabine Hossenfelder on "The case against beauty in physics"

Rationally Speaking #211 - Sabine Hossenfelder on "The case against beauty in physics"

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Rationally Speaking #211 - Sabine Hossenfelder on "The case against beauty in physics"

FromRationally Speaking Podcast

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Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Jun 24, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This episode features physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, author of Lost in Math, arguing that fundamental physics is too enamored of "beauty" as a criterion for evaluating theories of how the universe works. She and Julia discuss the three components of beauty (simplicity, naturalness, and elegance), why physicists think it's reasonable to put their trust in beauty, and why this might be merely a symptom of other underlying problems with physics as a discipline.
Released:
Jun 24, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Rationally Speaking is the bi-weekly podcast of New York City Skeptics. Join host Julia Galef and guests as they explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense, likely from unlikely, and science from pseudoscience. Any topic is fair game as long as we can bring reason to bear upon it, with both a skeptical eye and a good dose of humor! We agree with the Marquis de Condorcet, who said that in an open society we ought to devote ourselves to "the tracking down of prejudices in the hiding places where priests, the schools, the government, and all long-established institutions had gathered and protected them."Rationally Speaking was co-created with Massimo Pigliucci, is produced by Benny Pollak, and is recorded in the heart of New York City's Greenwich Village.