Approximately 14 billion years ago, a cosmological event of extreme significance called the Big Bang gave birth to the Universe and all the laws of physics that govern its phenomenology. These laws of physics were cause-effect machinations and could not be bribed by any other influence nor subverted. In other words, they were and are godlike. Over the course of some 10 billion years, they hammered away at the doors of supermassive clouds of hydrogen and all its constituent particles to, somehow, eventually (and accidentally) ensure that our planet could come into existence and support life.
On another note: the human mind is a thing of wonder, a receptacle within which swims a cornucopia of ideas, imaginations, calculations and speculations. Scientists can’t explain it, philosophers work with it. Some say animals have minds of their own, some argue that it is the single most important difference between humankind and beasts. Whatever its origins, our assumptions and notions find their emotional realization within it. Ugliness is a word that means something, but it is our ability to imagine something ugly in front of the mind’s eye that completes the picture.
The laws of physics did not intend, per se, the creation of the mind – just like they didn’t intend anything else. However, it is the brain’s awareness of itself, and the brain being the way it is could be attributed to physics. At the same time, when the ability to imagine kicked in, our imagination gave as much a damn about such universal laws as it did about all the other weird things it came up with.
Now, if everything that we consider beautiful were to be the result of physics and its machinations, the beauty would have been nothing absolute as it is because an actual physical event, the Big Bang, would have constructed it, would have brought it crashing to the ground from the skies it flies now.
So, how do we know beauty is nothing that has to do with physics? The answers to this question are simple. Think poetry; think literature; think hardships; think music; think equations; think wars; think bravery; think many such things that we would have brought to life even if the speed of light had been lower by orders of magnitude.
Thus, in saying physics is beautiful, I mean physics is beautiful, and that it has absolutely nothing to do with the Big Bang that brought us into existence or any other device that only enables us to perceive it.
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