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When a mathematical or a physical theory can be considered as beautiful?
It is currently admitted that beauty is an important criterion to construct a physical theory, and symmetry is recognised as an element of beauty. How could we measure the aesthetic value of a theory? Or, at experimental level, there are lists of "elegant experiments". When an experiment es elegant?
I think these questions are related to dilemma "invention vs. discovery" and the Plato's Philosophy.
It is currently admitted that beauty is an important criterion to construct a physical theory, and symmetry is recognised as an element of beauty. How could we measure the aesthetic value of a theory? Or, at experimental level, there are lists of "elegant experiments". When an experiment es elegant?
I think these questions are related to dilemma "invention vs. discovery" and the Plato's Philosophy.