{"id":16,"date":"2012-02-21T10:43:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T10:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heikegani.com\/wordpress\/?p=16"},"modified":"2012-06-19T00:44:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T00:44:54","slug":"murray-gell-mann-beauty-and-elegance-in-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/murray-gell-mann-beauty-and-elegance-in-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and Elegance in Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_314\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-314\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heikegani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Murray-Gell-Mann1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-314 \" title=\"Murray Gell-Mann\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heikegani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Murray-Gell-Mann1-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Murray-Gell-Mann1-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/heikegani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Murray-Gell-Mann1.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gell-Mann. Sunglasses.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The all knowing polymath that is <strong><a title=\"Murray Gell-Mann\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Murray_Gell-Mann\" target=\"_blank\">Murray Gell-Mann<\/a><\/strong> is one of the world&#8217;s greatest living geniuses. Plus he does a good line in sunglasses. Two persuasive reasons why you should spend the time to get to know anyone, let alone the man who looked to James Joyce when naming the smallest constiuents of matter &#8211; <strong><a title=\"Quark etymology\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quark#Etymology\" target=\"_blank\">quarks<\/a><\/strong>* &#8211; and borrowed from Buddhism when putting some order on the particle zoo with the Eightfold Way.<\/p>\n<p>In this lecture, he discusses the theory that beauty, or simplicity of expression, in physics is not only aesthetically pleasing but is actually a guiding light in our search for knowledge and a good barometer by which to measure how close we are to uncovering underlying thruths about the universe.<\/p>\n<p><em>*He found the word in the line &#8220;Three quarks for Muster Mark&#8221; in Joyce&#8217;s <strong><a title=\"Finnegans Wake\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Finnegans_Wake\" target=\"_blank\">Finnegans Wake<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Beauty and Elegance in Physics<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7qiJTNKTihk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The all knowing polymath that is Murray Gell-Mann is one of the world&#8217;s greatest living geniuses. Plus he does a good line in sunglasses. Two persuasive reasons why you should spend the time to get to know anyone, let alone the man who looked to James Joyce when naming the smallest constiuents of matter &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15,150],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-physics","tag-murray-gell-mann","tag-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}