What's so "beautiful" or "elegant" about string theory?
<jabberwocky><div class="vbmenu_control"><a href="jabberwocky:;" onClick="newWindow=window.open('','usenetCode','toolbar=no,location=no, scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,status=no,width=650,height=400'); newWindow.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Usenet ASCII</TITLE></HEAD><BODY topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 BGCOLOR=#F1F1F1><table border=0 width=625><td bgcolor=midnightblue><font color=#F1F1F1>This Usenet message\'s original ASCII form: </font></td></tr><tr><td width=449><br><br><font face=courier><UL><PRE>\nI ask this seriously and respectfully. And I apologize if it seems\nlike a troll. I always feel uncomfortable when I hear physicists make\nstatements about beauty. Who here thinks reality is ugly?\nInterestingly, I do not hear mathematicians speak like this as often\nas I do physicists. So what is it that string theorists find so\nbeautiful? Brian Greene did not convey it to me. Sorry and thanks.\n</UL></PRE></font></td></tr></table></BODY><HTML>');"> <IMG SRC=/images/buttons/ip.gif BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER ALT="View this Usenet post in original ASCII form"> View this Usenet post in original ASCII form </a></div><P></jabberwocky>I ask this seriously and respectfully. And I apologize if it seems
like a troll. I always feel uncomfortable when I hear physicists make
statements about beauty. Who here thinks reality is ugly?
Interestingly, I do not hear mathematicians speak like this as often
as I do physicists. So what is it that string theorists find so
beautiful? Brian Greene did not convey it to me. Sorry and thanks.
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