{"id":47649,"date":"2015-11-10T20:25:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T20:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=47649"},"modified":"2015-11-10T20:25:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T20:25:20","slug":"it-is-more-important-to-have-equations-in-your-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=47649","title":{"rendered":"It is more important to have equations in your beauty.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; musings on PAM Dirac and Hedy Lamarr ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAM Dirac<\/strong> once famously said, &#8220;it is more important to have beauty in one&#8217;s equations that to have them fit experiment.&#8221; I was reminded of that quotation while musing over this <strong>DoubleQuote in the Wild<\/strong> celebrating the birthday yesterday of <strong>Hedy Lamarr<\/strong> &#8212; stunningly symmetrical movie star and frequency-hopping inventor:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Hedy-Lamarr-DQ-Wild.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Hedy-Lamarr-DQ-Wild.png\" alt=\"Hedy Lamarr DQ Wild\" width=\"600\" height=\"392\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Hedy-Lamarr-DQ-Wild.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Hedy-Lamarr-DQ-Wild-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To the left, the beauty herself, and to the right, the equations in the beauty &#8212; if one may take the liberty of saying that thoughts are &#8220;in&#8221; their thinker&#8217;s body &#8212; shown here in the form of the patent application Lamarr and composer George Antheil submitted fora &#8220;a system for the radio control of airborne torpedoes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I put that last phrase in quotes because that&#8217;s the way a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/09\/arts\/music\/09ball.html?oref=slogin\"><strong>New York Times<\/strong> piece<\/a> described their joint invention. Me, I haven&#8217;t the foggiest about their inner workings, whereas the outer face of Hedy Lamarr I can see with utmost clarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; musings on PAM Dirac and Hedy Lamarr ] . PAM Dirac once famously said, &#8220;it is more important to have beauty in one&#8217;s equations that to have them fit experiment.&#8221; I was reminded of that quotation while musing over this DoubleQuote in the Wild celebrating the birthday yesterday of Hedy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788,526,627,47,655,367,67,32,383,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-intelligence","category-mathematics","category-military-history","category-movies","category-science","category-symmetry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47649"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47653,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47649\/revisions\/47653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}