Symmetry, beauty and belief in high-energy physics
This paper engages with the aesthetics of knowl-edge, both in its sense as the connection between knowledge and aesthetic' judgements of beauty, or ugliness, and of the many aesthetic' - that is to say sensually perceivable - dimensions of knowledge, which are always to be seen to be con...
| Published in: | Approaching religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2017]
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Approaching religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
High energy physics
/ Aesthetics
/ Faith
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism |
| Further subjects: | B
Physical-mathematical research
B PARTICLE physics B philosophy of science B Aesthetics B High-energy physics B Physics B Symmetry |
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| Summary: | This paper engages with the aesthetics of knowl-edge, both in its sense as the connection between knowledge and aesthetic' judgements of beauty, or ugliness, and of the many aesthetic' - that is to say sensually perceivable - dimensions of knowledge, which are always to be seen to be constituting an epistemic factor in its production and consumption. On the one hand I analyse how in recent decades the connection between beauty and truth has been systematically employed to both inspire and guide research in high-energy physics; at the same time I also show how this use of aesthetic judgement only reveals its constitutive role in physics research when paying attention to the broad range of aesthetic strategies employed for expressing scientific knowledge. |
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| ISSN: | 1799-3121 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Approaching religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.30664/ar.67711 |