{"id":118595,"date":"2021-01-16T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T20:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/ten-keys-to-reality-from-nobel-laureate-frank-wilczek-understanding-ourselves-and-our-place-in-the-universe"},"modified":"2021-01-16T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T20:23:00","slug":"ten-keys-to-reality-from-nobel-laureate-frank-wilczek-understanding-ourselves-and-our-place-in-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/ten-keys-to-reality-from-nobel-laureate-frank-wilczek-understanding-ourselves-and-our-place-in-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Ten \u201cKeys to Reality\u201d From Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek \u2013 Understanding Ourselves and Our Place in the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ten-keys-to-reality-from-nobel-laureate-frank-wilczek-understanding-ourselves-and-our-place-in-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> To understand ourselves and our place in the universe, \u201cwe should have humility but also self-respect,\u201d the physicist writes in a new book.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the spring of 1970, colleges across the country erupted with student protests in response to the Vietnam War and the National Guard\u2019s shooting of student demonstrators at Kent State University. At the University of Chicago, where Frank Wilczek was an undergraduate, regularly scheduled classes were \u201cimprovised and semivoluntary\u201d amid the turmoil, as he recalls.<\/p>\n<p>It was during this turbulent time that Wilczek found unexpected comfort, and a new understanding of the world, in mathematics. He had decided to sit in on a class by physics professor Peter Freund, who, with a zeal \u201cbordering on rapture,\u201d led students through mathematical theories of symmetry and ways in which these theories can predict behaviors in the physical world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To understand ourselves and our place in the universe, \u201cwe should have humility but also self-respect,\u201d the physicist writes in a new book. In the spring of 1970, colleges across the country erupted with student protests in response to the Vietnam War and the National Guard\u2019s shooting of student demonstrators at Kent State University. At [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}