World Science Festival
Season 1, Episode 4: Beyond Beauty: The Predictive Power of Symmetry
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From a bee’s hexagonal honeycomb to the elliptical paths of planets, symmetry has long been recognized as a vital quality of nature. Einstein saw symmetry hidden in the fabric of space and time. The brilliant Emmy Noether proved that symmetry is the mathematical flower of deeply rooted physical law. And today’s theorists are pursuing an even more exotic symmetry that, mathematically speaking, could be nature’s final fundamental symmetry: supersymmetry.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
Infinite Worlds: A Journey through Parallel Universes
Episode 2
Quantum Reality: Space, Time, and Entanglement
Episode 3
A Thin Sheet of Reality: The Universe as a Hologram
Episode 4
Beyond Beauty: The Predictive Power of Symmetry
Episode 5
Engineering the Brain: Deploying a New Neural Toolkit
Episode 6
Gravitational Waves: A New Era of Astronomy Begins
Episode 7
Hidden Dimensions: Exploring Hyperspace
Episode 8
Neutrinos, Matter, and Antimatter: The Yin Yang of the Big Bang
Episode 9
How Music Affects Your Brain: Notes on the Folds
Episode 10
Measure for Measure: Quantum Physics and Reality
Episode 11
The Illusion of Certainty: Risk, Probability, and Chance
Episode 12
The Matter of Antimatter: Answering the Cosmic Riddle of Existence