Part of my definition of beauty is that the work not be perfectly symmetrical. Michelangelo talked about it also.
The most important question in physics for the past half century has been why the original big bang was not exactly symmetrical – why, when according to all we know and theorize, the big bang should have produced exactly equal amounts of matter and anti-matter, which should have then perfectly annihilated each other, our universe instead produced a slightly unsymmetrical amount of matter. Perhaps the universe is naturally beautiful? As part of its basic definition? I find it curious that something as idiosyncratic as my personal definition of beauty is so intimately connected to the basic question of the origin of the universe.
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