“And what are the most fundamental unknown questions? Once you know the right question to ask, the answer is often the easy part, as my hero, Douglas Adams, would say.”
Physics names the question. Beauty names the fittingness. Love keeps both from going cold.
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“Beauty will save the world.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot
Beauty that saves still meets the good
“Beauty is how a rational, embodied creature recognizes fittingness in the world.”
Roger Scruton
Fittingness · joy that recognizes order
“Every it (particle, field, even spacetime) derives its function, meaning, and existence from bits: answers to yes-no questions put to nature. Not that the world is a computer game. That the world becomes definite through the questions it will answer.”