{"id":201195,"date":"2024-12-10T14:44:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T20:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/what-makes-physics-beautiful-we-asked-some-top-researchers"},"modified":"2024-12-10T14:44:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T20:44:15","slug":"what-makes-physics-beautiful-we-asked-some-top-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/what-makes-physics-beautiful-we-asked-some-top-researchers","title":{"rendered":"What makes physics beautiful? We asked some top researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-makes-physics-beautiful-we-asked-some-top-researchers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder \u2013 and for physicists, beauty is in numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Pedro Vieira, Clay Riddell Dirac Chair in Theoretical Physics at Perimeter Institute, is currently teaching a non-credit minicourse about \u2018beautiful\u2019 papers in physics. The course alternates between lectures on nine influential papers and student-led presentations about how these monumental papers influenced physics.<\/p>\n<p>This is Vieira\u2019s second time running the course and his first time offering it at Perimeter. He says the course is a way to cover spectacular papers while helping students understand the language of quantum field theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder \u2013 and for physicists, beauty is in numbers. Pedro Vieira, Clay Riddell Dirac Chair in Theoretical Physics at Perimeter Institute, is currently teaching a non-credit minicourse about \u2018beautiful\u2019 papers in physics. The course alternates between lectures on nine influential papers and student-led presentations about how [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201195","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}