Symmetry, beauty and belief in high-energy physics
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Symmetry, beauty and belief in high-energy physics. / Borrelli, Arianna.
In: Approaching Religion, Vol. 7, No. 2, 29.11.2017, p. 22-36.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Symmetry, beauty and belief in high-energy physics
AU - Borrelli, Arianna
PY - 2017/11/29
Y1 - 2017/11/29
N2 - This paper engages with the aesthetics of knowl-edge, both in its sense as the connection between knowledge and ‘aesthetic’ judgements of beauty, or ugliness, and of the many ‘aesthetic’ – that is to say sensually perceivable – dimensions of knowledge, which are always to be seen to be constituting an epistemic factor in its production and consumption. On the one hand I analyse how in recent decades the connection between beauty and truth has been systematically employed to both inspire and guide research in high-energy physics; at the same time I also show how this use of aesthetic judgement only reveals its constitutive role in physics research when paying attention to the broad range of aesthetic strategies employed for expressing scientific knowledge.
AB - This paper engages with the aesthetics of knowl-edge, both in its sense as the connection between knowledge and ‘aesthetic’ judgements of beauty, or ugliness, and of the many ‘aesthetic’ – that is to say sensually perceivable – dimensions of knowledge, which are always to be seen to be constituting an epistemic factor in its production and consumption. On the one hand I analyse how in recent decades the connection between beauty and truth has been systematically employed to both inspire and guide research in high-energy physics; at the same time I also show how this use of aesthetic judgement only reveals its constitutive role in physics research when paying attention to the broad range of aesthetic strategies employed for expressing scientific knowledge.
KW - Media and communication studies
KW - Aesthetics
KW - High-energy physics
KW - Particle physics
KW - Physical-mathematical research
KW - Physics
KW - Symmetry
KW - Philosophy of Science
U2 - 10.30664/ar.67711
DO - 10.30664/ar.67711
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 7
SP - 22
EP - 36
JO - Approaching Religion
JF - Approaching Religion
SN - 1799-3121
IS - 2
ER -