Sabine Hossenfelder discusses the unexpected dangers of viewing physics as inherently beautiful.

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Sabine Hossenfelder is a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, author of Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray and regular contributor to Forbes and the popular physics blog Backreaction.

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