Like Magritte’s The Castle of the Pyrenees, theoretical physics is sustained by the power of its internal consistency (Image: The Castle of the Pyrenees, 1959 (oil on canvas), Magritte, Rene (1898-1967)/Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel/Gift of Harry Torczyner, New York/Bridgeman/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2011)
Great theories draw on the same creative roots as great poetry or fiction, but the constraints of fact add something unique
THERE is a story called The Little Prince by the French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry that I find deeply inspiring. A pilot crash-lands in a desert and meets himself, thinly disguised as a…
