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Translations

• We do not question how the cinematographer and
  the cosmologistdecide on a common Language, what
  they learn as a consequence, or how their novel
  collaborations relax hidden assumptions that may
  limit their work.
• ---David Edwards,
  ArtScience

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Feynman Diagrams
quark
electron

• Mental Pictures of particle interactions
• Mnemonic devices Rules for Calculation

photon (light)
Event from Collider Detector Facility at Fermilab
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• Charles Ross
• New Mexico Desert

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Richard FeynmanNew Mexico Desert
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The Energy of Nothing
According to Feynman (and others)
Virtual particle-antiparticle pair, created out
of the vacuum, carries energy

• Should be infinite

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The Energy of Nothing

• Large compared to everything else in the
  universe, but finite

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The Energy of Nothing

• Causing the expansion of the universe to speed up
  (for the last 5 billion years)
• Before 1998, we had assumed gravity was slowing
  down the expansion

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Truth and Beauty
Physicists consciously implement Aesthetic
constraints in constructing theories Beauty
as necessary prerequisite for and indicator of
truth (cf. Einstein, string theory)

• Symmetry
• Simplicity
• Naturalness

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Symmetries in Nature
Invariance under a transformation

• Spatial symmetries rotation, translation,
  cf. mirror world
• Time-translation and reversal
• internal symmetries unified theories

Women have more orgasms with men who are more
symmetrical.
--LiveScience.com Is our
preference for symmetry
biologically selected?
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Broken or hidden symmetry

• Some interactions slightly violate time-reversal
  symmetry
• Can explain why there is more matter than
  anti-matter in the universe
• Which is why there is something (including us)
  rather than nothing
• Symmetry-breaking as a transition

A basis for a film/dance choreography?