Question
“It is more important to have beauty in the equations of physics than to have them agree with experiments”. The great British physicist P.A.M. Dirac held this view. Criticize the statement. Look out for some equations and results in this book which strike you as beautiful.
Solution
Physics is often considered as a dry subject which aims to give qualitative and quantitative treatment. Any derived relation or equation is explained on the basis of experimentation and observation. The truth of an equation is more important than the simplicity, wonderfulness, symmetry or beauty of the equation. But if a relation is true to experimentation and simultaneously it is simple, interesting, symmetrical, wonderful or beautiful, it will certainly add to the charm of the equation.
Equations like or F=ma have universal application and has a charm of it's own.
