30 MAY 2016 by ideonexus
The Dream Lover and the Template
For the majority of people, what they love exists only in the imagination. The object of their love is not the man or woman of reality, but what he or she is like in their imagination. The person in reality is just a template used for the creation of this dream lover. Eventually, they find out the differences between their dream lover and the template. If they can get used to those differences, then they can be together. If not, they split up. It’s as simple as that. You differ from the maj...Folksonomies: beauty perception
Folksonomies: beauty perception
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Unweaving the Rainbow Makes it More Beautiful
Newton's unweaving of the rainbow led on to spectroscopy, which has
proved the key to much of what we know today about the cosmos. And
the heart of any poet worthy of the title Romantic could not fail to leap
up if he beheld the universe of Einstein, Hubble and Hawking. We read
its nature through Fraunhofer lines - 'Barcodes in the Stars' - and their
shifts along the spectrum. The image of barcodes carries us on to the
very different, but equally intriguing, realms of sound ('Barcodes on the
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notes22 JAN 2014 by ideonexus
Beauty is More Important than Accuracy
I think that there is a moral to this story, namely that it is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment. If Schroedinger had been more confident of his work, he could have published it some months earlier, and he could have published a more accurate equation .... It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress. If there is not complete ... 1 notes
notesInteresting argument: beauty in an equation is more important than having it completely fit the reality.
10 DEC 2013 by ideonexus
Appreciate the Beauty of Wrong Ideas
Pinker tiresomely rehearses the familiar triumphalism of science over religion: “the findings of science entail that the belief systems of all the world’s traditional religions and cultures ... are factually mistaken.” So they are, there on the page; but most of the belief systems of all the world’s traditional religions and cultures have evolved in their factual understandings by means of intellectually responsible exegesis that takes the progress of science into account; and most of...
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1 Argument that just because an idea is overcome by events, does not mean we cannot appreciate it for its elegance and beauty.
27 NOV 2013 by ideonexus
Arthur Benjamin Explains the Fibbonacci Set
Now these numbers can be appreciated in many different ways. From the standpoint of calculation, they're as easy to understand as one plus one, which is two. Then one plus two is three, two plus three is five, three plus five is eight, and so on. Indeed, the person we call Fibonacci was actually named Leonardo of Pisa, and these numbers appear in his book "Liber Abaci," which taught the Western world the methods of arithmetic that we use today. In terms of applications, Fibonacci numbers appe...And provides new insights into its web of patterns and numerical relationships.
06 OCT 2013 by ideonexus
The Beauty of Comparative Anatomy
It is one of the most beautiful interests of that beautiful science, comparative anatomy, to trace the complex and wonderful adaptations of living things to the necessities of existence in air. All living things, plants and animals alike, are primarily water things. For example all the higher vertebrated animals above the fishes, up to and including man, pass through a stage in their development in the egg or before birth in which they have gill slits which are obliterated before the young em... 1 notes
notesHow our form changed to me the functions of dry land.
26 MAR 2013 by ideonexus
Mathematics is More Popular Than Music and Art
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because
languages die and mathematical ideas do not. 'Immortality' may be a silly
word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may
mean."
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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.
If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are
made with ideas.
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The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's,
must be b... 1 notes
notesMathematical ideas are more permanent in culture than artistic ones, and more people play in mathematical games without realizing it.
14 FEB 2013 by ideonexus
1 = 0.999999999…
This simple equation, which states that the quantity 0.999, followed by an infinite string of nines, is equivalent to one, is the favorite of mathematician Steven Strogatz of Cornell University.
"I love how simple it is — everyone understands what it says — yet how provocative it is," Strogatz said. "Many people don't believe it could be true. It's also beautifully balanced. The left side represents the beginning of mathematics; the right side represents the mysteries of infinity."An equation that is challenging, provocative, and portrays both the certainty of mathematics and its infinity.
23 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
Einstein Saw No Point in Exploring Non-Beautiful Theories
What I remember most clearly was that when I put down a suggestion that seemed to me cogent and reasonable, Einstein did not in the least contest this, but he only said, 'Oh, how ugly.' As soon as an equation seemed to him to be ugly, he really rather lost interest in it and could not understand why somebody else was willing to spend much time on it. He was quite convinced that beauty was a guiding principle in the search for important results in theoretical physics. 1 notes
notesQuoting Sir Hermann Bondi. I would argue that an ugly theory becomes beautiful as you explore it.
21 SEP 2011 by ideonexus
Human Race Differences the Result of Sexual Selection
Most of the genetic differences between races are trivial. And yet others,
those physical differences between a Japanese individual and a Finn,
a Masai, and an Inuit, are striking. We have the interesting situation,
then, that the overall differences in gene sequences between peoples are
minor, yet those same groups show dramatic differences in a range of
visually apparent traits, such as skin color, hair color, body form, and
nose shape. These obvious physical differences are not characteris... 1 notes
notesCultural norms in different societies probably shaped many of the physical differences we see between races today, different definitions of beauty.
