What is the link between beauty and the law of conservation of energy?
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What is the link between beauty and the law of conservation of energy?
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Or something like that. Just a wild guess.
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Re: What is the link between beauty and the law of conservation of energy?
See what? The question, or the answer?growthhormone wrote: ↑January 30th, 2018, 12:08 am What is the link between beauty and the law of conservation of energy? It is a philosophical question. Can anyone see it?
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Sleep is the link. Sleep conserves energy and sleep can be beautiful. Although I have a feeling that your answer will be even more ridiculous than mine.growthhormone wrote: ↑January 30th, 2018, 12:08 am What is the link between beauty and the law of conservation of energy? It is a philosophical question. Can anyone see it?
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"beauty is associated with symmetry and symmetry"Steve3007 wrote: ↑January 30th, 2018, 4:14 am Or perhaps because beauty is associated with symmetry and symmetry is associated with minimal energy states. Symmetry is associated with simplicity - being able to describe a relatively large physical system with a relatively small description. Perhaps simplicity is beautiful because it implies order and the brains that recognize beauty are themselves expressions of order. Perhaps we find things beautiful if we recognize them as essential to our own existence.
Beauty has nothing to do with symmetry or asymmetry.
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I disagree.Beauty has nothing to do with symmetry or asymmetry.
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Even physicists see beauty in the symmetry of the equations of physics.growthhormone wrote: ↑January 31st, 2018, 9:52 pm "beauty is associated with symmetry and symmetry"
Beauty has nothing to do with symmetry or asymmetry.
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It's not, but that is irrelevant. The claim was "Beauty has nothing to do with symmetry," not that beauty requires symmetry.Albert Tatlock wrote: ↑February 1st, 2018, 2:04 pm Many people say they think the sunset is beautiful. In what way could a sunset be said to be symmetrical?
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Re: What is the link between beauty and the law of conservation of energy?
There's no there there. Beauty has more to do with the firing of neurons in various parts of the brain when certain patterns are detected, than physics and simplistic equations.Albert Tatlock wrote: ↑February 1st, 2018, 2:04 pm Many people say they think the sunset is beautiful. In what way could a sunset be said to be symmetrical?
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No, I thought not.Frost wrote: ↑February 1st, 2018, 2:18 pmIt's not,Albert Tatlock wrote: ↑February 1st, 2018, 2:04 pm In what way could a sunset be said to be symmetrical?
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The most reliable thing to support a theory/concept is fact not any human being including physicists. There are too many facts that discredit the notion of symmetry being the foundation of beautyFrost wrote: ↑February 1st, 2018, 10:55 amEven physicists see beauty in the symmetry of the equations of physics.growthhormone wrote: ↑January 31st, 2018, 9:52 pm "beauty is associated with symmetry and symmetry"
Beauty has nothing to do with symmetry or asymmetry.
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Such as?growthhormone wrote: ↑February 1st, 2018, 9:23 pmThe most reliable thing to support a theory/concept is fact not any human being including physicists. There are too many facts that discredit the notion of symmetry being the foundation of beauty
Saying it is not the foundation is not the same as saying it has nothing to do with beauty.
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Re: What is the link between beauty and the law of conservation of energy?
That's easy!growthhormone wrote: ↑January 30th, 2018, 12:08 am What is the link between beauty and the law of conservation of energy? It is a philosophical question. Can anyone see it?
The law of conservation of energy is a beautiful theory!
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