Beauty in Physics
Bee has been on a tear against the concept of beauty in physics. She has even written a book about it. It won't be out for a few months, so of course I haven't read it, but I have my doubts. My short list of beautiful ideas in physics:
(a)Kepler's Laws
(b)Newtonian physics
(c)Newtonian gravity
(d)Lagrangian mechanics
(e)The Principle of Least Time
(f)Hamiltonian mechanics
(g)Faraday's Law
(h)Maxwell's Equations
(i)Planck's Black Body Law
(j)The Bohr-Rutherford atom
(k)De Broglie's relation
(l)Schroedinger's equation
(m)Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
(n)Dirac's Equation
(o)Special Relativity
(p)General Relativity
(q)Feynman's path integrals
(r)The gauge principle
Is there an ugly law that worked?