beautiful question
beautiful question
[美]弗兰克·维尔切克（Frank Wilzcek）
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Translator: Lanmei Press: Hunan Science and Technology Press
Editor's Choice:
1. What is the ultimate secret of the universe? Relativity or Quantum Mechanics? Nobel Prize winner Wilczek pondered for nearly 50 years: Beauty is the only answer to the universe!
2. Is our universe a work of art?
A masterpiece that subverts your view of the universe and takes you from the perspective of ants to the perspective of God!
From spirit to matter, from microcosm to macrocosm, this is the most beautiful book of the universe!
3. Follow the boy who is a handsome master of physics, and embark on the 2,500-year journey of human beings to explore beauty,
From music and color to the most advanced basic concepts of today's physics, let's see how a world's top thinker thinks, how to use beauty as a tool and guide to ask the right questions and find the right answers.
4. The Chinese version is titled and recommended by Li Zhengdao, a world-renowned Chinese physicist and Nobel Laureate winner!
Recommended by Nature Magazine, Physics Today, and Wall Street Journal
Recommended by Brian Green, Max Tegmark, Lawrence Krauss
5. Dedicated to all those who are interested in the question of "Why did everything in the universe evolve into what it is today", which is both physical and philosophical, the reading process is not only beautiful but also full of knowledge!
Is our universe a work of art?
In order to explore this question, Nobel Laureate Wilczek leads readers on a 2,500-year journey of human beings to explore beauty, and let us appreciate the beautiful scenery of physics, art and philosophy along the way. The author begins with Pythagoras's that everything is numbered, and enumerates the beautiful thinking produced by human beings in the process of understanding nature: from Kepler's planetary model, to Newton's mechanics, to Maxwell's electromagnetic equations, Einstein's Relativity and the quantum beauty of atomic motion. He pointed out that even if some thinking is wrong, the beauty contained in it will still have strong vitality. For example, the Pythagorean idea that everything is number is clearly incorrect from a modern scientific point of view, but the idea of linking integers to physical phenomena has survived and is perfectly embodied in modern quantum mechanics.
This book embodies the beauty of science through quantum theory and the standard model. The standard model based on symmetry shows that fundamental physics is very close to the temple of Pythagoras and Plato: the perfect correspondence between physical reality and mathematical ideals . The author also points out its flaws, thus leading readers to the more exciting dark matter and dark energy.
