World Science Festival — Season 1, Episode 4: Beyond Beauty: The Predictive Power of Symmetry
Documentary, Talk • 30 min • 2 seasons, 24 episodes
Episode synopsis
From a bee’s hexagonal honeycomb to the elliptical paths of planets, symmetry has long been recognized as a vital quality of nature. Einstein saw symmetry hidden in the fabric of space and time. The brilliant Emmy Noether proved that symmetry is the mathematical flower of deeply rooted physical law. And today’s theorists are pursuing an even more exotic symmetry that, mathematically speaking, could be nature’s final fundamental symmetry: supersymmetry.
About World Science Festival
The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Their mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Infinite Worlds: A Journey through Parallel Universes
- E2Quantum Reality: Space, Time, and Entanglement
- E3A Thin Sheet of Reality: The Universe as a Hologram
- E5Engineering the Brain: Deploying a New Neural Toolkit
- E6Gravitational Waves: A New Era of Astronomy Begins
- E7Hidden Dimensions: Exploring Hyperspace
- E8Neutrinos, Matter, and Antimatter: The Yin Yang of the Big Bang
- E9How Music Affects Your Brain: Notes on the Folds
- E10Measure for Measure: Quantum Physics and Reality
- E11The Illusion of Certainty: Risk, Probability, and Chance
- E12The Matter of Antimatter: Answering the Cosmic Riddle of Existence