An Imperfect World
The order that we search so intensely in Nature, is often a reflection of the order that we seek in ourselves…
Making Sense Of An Imperfect World…
Brief excerpt from essay by Marcelo Gleiser
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To accept the imperfection of Nature, that order is not the only guiding principle to explain physical reality, is a very large step in the right direction: science creates models to describe the world. These models are NOT the real world, only our representations of the world.
The “Truths” that we so admire are simply approximations to what is really going on. Symmetries are never exact. The order that we search so intensely in Nature is often a reflection of the order that we seek in ourselves.
What’s most amazing about Nature is not its perfection but the fact that matter, after billions of years, evolved to a point where it assembled into entities capable of asking questions about existence.
By Marcelo Gleiser — Theoretical Physicist via NPR.Org
