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Can physics also be beautiful?

When Paul Dirac, the youngest theoretical physicist ever to win the Nobel Prize for Physics said "a physical theory contains mathematical beauty" over half a century ago, what did he mean? Jim Al-Khalili, professor of physics at the University of Surrey, and biographer Graham Farmelo discuss if aesthetics and logical thinking can go together.

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