Name: The Beauty of General Relativity
Creator: Wu Zhong Chao
Keywords: Black holes, 05 social sciences, general relativity, nonlinearity, 06 humanities and the arts, 0509 other social sciences, 0603 philosophy, ethics and religion, cosmology, black holes, Relativistic cosmology

The beauty of general relativity

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1997 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Foundations of Science, volume 2, pages 61-64 (issn: 1233-1821, eissn: 1572-8471,

Authors: Wu Zhong Chao;

doi: 10.1023/a:1009623126300

The Beauty of General Relativity

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Abstract

The author proposes to add another dichotomy to the list of essential tensions proposed by Professor Duda, namely beauty and ugliness. Physicists believe that only beautiful theories describe the world correctly, and that General Relativity is one of the most beautiful physical theories. The author explains why physicists regard this theory as beautiful.

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University of Science and Technology of China
China (People's Republic of)
China University of Science and Technology
Taiwan

Keywords

Black holes, general relativity, nonlinearity, cosmology, black holes, Relativistic cosmology

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