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Elegance and natural and simple are just attributes of a system. There is no law that says all systems must be elegant. You're saying finding attributes of a m
by deltaonefour 5y ago
Elegance and natural and simple are just attributes of a system. There is no law that says all systems must be elegant.
You're saying finding attributes of a mathematical model to be simple or elegant answers this question of "why?".
For me such an attribute is arbitrary. If we determine something to be elegant it doesn't mean anything at all. But "why" is it elegant means something.
- bawolff 5y agoI think the underlying (somewhat irrational) claim is that nature prefers to work in elegant ways. Thus if you can show that QM is the most elegant solution under some contraints, it helps explain the "why".