The Royal Institution Lecture: 'A Simple Theory of Everything'
(short excerpt 2'26")
'Philosophers still think in terms of objective reality, but at a subatomic level this is a world of paradox'
OXQ: The Oxford Quarterly Journal of Symmetry & Asymmetry is an open-access peer-reviewed journal that explores the relationship between order and chaos in a variety of different fields, including particle physics, genetics, neuroscience, mathematics and philosophy. The journal is edited by Benedict Rattigan (Supervising Editor), Iain McGilchrist (All Souls College Oxford) and Denis Noble (Balliol College Oxford).
Issue I includes papers by Professors Ken Peach (Oxford), Nicholas J. Wade (Dundee), L. M. Brown (Cambridge) and Peter L Read (Oxford). Click on the image to access papers.
'Symmetry provides the basis for some of the most fundamental relationships that determine the structure of life. But if it were the ordering principle and its reach were infinite, then some paradoxical conditions would emerge. The first is that it would condition its own structure. Which, in fact, it does. Symmetry is wholly dependent upon the correspondence of repetition and its opposite, variance: the repetition of a physical property or process, and a variance in time or direction... Whereas nature's laws are based upon certain symmetries, symmetry is subject to itself.' From 'Symmetrical Symmetry': https://redrattigan.com/research
Order, Chaos, and the Hidden Hand of Nature: Iain McGilchrist, Denis Noble and Dimitra Rigopoulou In Conversation With Benedict Rattigan
'From financial markets and traffic flows to earthquakes, black holes and the distribution of galaxies in the universe, the study of patterns that govern our lives and the natural world has long fascinated mathematicians, scientists and philosophers. But now evidence is mounting that these seemingly disconnected phenomena are all governed by a “hidden hand” that lies at the heart of everything: symmetry.'
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