Comments on: The Power Of Balance

By: Gopal Anantharaman

Gopal Anantharaman — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 20:04:05 +0000

Do we know what is the symmetry that results in constant speed of light for all reference frames?

By: Pankaj Shroff

Pankaj Shroff — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 14:13:52 +0000

Also more critically speaking, perhaps the natural appeal of symmetry whether in math or in music, to our human cognition, is a self fulfilling reality. Perhaps we can only see symmetry and it puts limits on how well we will eventually be able to understand the universe and physical reality around us. And Perhaps that is what creates the seduction around non-physical theories despite the lack of evidence. It’s like we live inside one of those snowflake crystal globes trapped within the limitations of our cognition. And its not so bad.

By: Pankaj Shroff

Pankaj Shroff — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 14:07:33 +0000

It is fascinating to me that every attempt to explain the physical reality of the universe has had to rely on exquisite and abstract notions that intuitive to human cognition in non-physical ways and can be described by the language of mathematics – if there is a lingua franca of the universe – it has to be mathematics. Without mathematics we would have nothing else to describe the universe. Perhaps with the exception of music. (Maybe some other forms of beings could be using music to describe the universe around them – never know, and who knows may be they call that music Mathematics!).

By: g2-04448e6a27901b2d7117ebf4c69cce45

g2-04448e6a27901b2d7117ebf4c69cce45 — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 11:32:09 +0000

A wonderful post, thank you. One nit. I would say Noether is one of the most brilliant mathematical physicists of all time. To say she is THE most brilliant seems an overstatement. For example, Newton invented the Calculus or Maxwell formed the EM equations. Perhaps you might say Noether was one of the two or three most brilliant.