physics

reductionism

religion

symmetry

universe

nationality

American

prizes and famous lectures

Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize - Physics

occupation / innovator as

theoretical physicist

university professor

University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)

intellectual movement

atheism

physicist

university teacher

cosmologist

scientific organization

National Academy of Sciences

race / ethnicity

Ashkenazi Jews

Judaism

Royal Society

innovator in the field of

cosmology

American Philosophical Society

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

is tasked to find the deeper symmetry that is hidden from us in everyday life.

Nothing in physics seems so hopeful to as the idea that it is possible for a theory to have a high degree of symmetry was hidden from us in everyday life. The physicist's task is to find this deeper symmetry.

is the view that 'the explanatory arrows always point downward' from society to small groups to individuals, to cells, to chemistry.

Roughly, reductionism is the view that, as Nobel Laureate Stephen Weinberg eloquently puts it, the 'explanatory arrows always point downward', from society to small groups to individuals to organs to cells to chemistry to physics and ultimately to something like Weinberg's Dreams of a Final Theory, a single set of laws, elegant in their form, like General Relativity, which, in Weinberg's sense, explains all' (Net article by Stuart Kaufman).

is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. Steven Weinberg (1999)

is at the heart of physics. The physicist's task is to find the deeper symmetry that is hidden from us in everyday life.

is at the heart of the universe --- the universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

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Steven Weinberg