Year: 2017
Type: editorial
Abstract: Here, 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 confirmed description of Nature within a certain range of scales.
Source: American Journal of Physics
DOI: 10.1119/1.4994807
Author: Stanley Deser
Institutions: California Institute of Technology, Brandeis University
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2766100975