Poem by Emma Lazarus on Statue of Liberty
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
alternatively:
Give me your strong, your brave
your fearless masses yearning to breathe free;
The individualist and the independent believer,
Send these, ready to build a free nation, to me;
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
This man interested me until….. I looked at his Twits
Can you really trust a political scientist
or….. a scientist who is political ?
https://twitter.com/grahamfarmelo/status/1257361199408320516
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbY_W28VQLo
Colloquium Nov 21, 2019 – The Universe Speaks in Numbers
NYU Physics – YT Channel
Graham Farmelo
Churchill College, University of Cambridge
The Universe Speaks in Numbers
Einstein believed that the supreme task of the physicist is to understand the 'miraculous' underlying order of the universe, in terms of the most basic laws of nature, written in mathematical language.
Most physicists believe that it's best to seek these laws by trying to understand surprising new experimental findings. Einstein and his peer Paul Dirac disagreed and controversially argued that new laws are best sought by developing the underlying mathematics.
Farmelo will describe how this mathematical approach has led to insights into both fundamental physics and advanced mathematics, which appear to be inextricably intertwined. Some physicists and mathematicians believe they are working towards a giant mathematical structure that encompasses all the fundamental laws of nature.
But might this be an illusion? Might mathematics be leading physics astray?
This talk will be based on Graham's recent book The Universe Speaks in Numbers.
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