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Physicists are biased towards seeking “beautiful,” symmetrical, and compact equations to describe the complex interactions that make up our reality. But I am wondering, given this drive towards “beauty,” what will happen to physics if the laws of nature turn out to be fundamentally “ugly” and complicated?

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