ๆป ๅซๅงไน็ตๅๆ็ผ
Eight years ago, I recorded a piece of music titled ๆป
ๅซๅงไน็ตๅๆ็ผ, which roughly translates as โfinally achieving clear vision, just when the era/kalpa of destruction is beginningโ. Its underlying idea is a juxtaposition of despair, sadness, and resignation due to a realization of very dark times ahead with elation due to a sudden discovery or great insight (which, given the circumstances, will probably be entirely useless). It switches back and forth between these two moods (but not very often as the piece is very slow). rayosu ยท ๅนปๅคไฝไบ โ ๆป
ๅซๅงไน็ตๅๆ็ผ a note about the music ๆป
ๅซๅงไน็ตๅๆ็ผ (2018) is one of...
Dissonant Reality
There is a persistent belief among both scientists and non-scientists that good theories must be somehow beautiful or elegant or something similar, because reality itself is ultimately โ in some relevant sense โ harmonious; or in other words, that science must be beautiful/โsimple/โelegant/โetcera because the laws of nature are beautiful/โsimple/โelegant/โetcera. This belief is particularly influential in physics and mainstream economics (which likes to mimic physics or an image thereof as much as possible). Sabine Hossenfelder has written an interesting book about how this belief โleads physics astrayโ rather than that it provides useful guidance. For an illustration of how deep...