Truth, Beauty and Supergravity
History and Philosophy of Physics
2017-12-08 v1
Abstract
I use Supergravity as a test case to study the role and uses of elegance/simplicity in formulating and evaluating physical models, whose sole criterion is of course truth: an observationally verified description of Nature within a certain range of scales.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1706.02448,
title = {Truth, Beauty and Supergravity},
author = {S. Deser},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.02448},
year = {2017}
}