This performance highlights the work's beautiful surface veneer, underlying levels of complexity and intoxicatingly therapeutic power.
Or it could be that beautiful people's underlying qualities mean they really are better, on average, at doing things.One way to disentangle these explanations is to look at a field of endeavour which is about as close as it is possible to get to a true meritocracy: professional sport.
It is also about finding beautiful mathematical structures underlying those phenomena, structures which on a first approach may be obscured by too great a precision in accounting for the phenomena.
It will aim to seamlessly marry that beautiful hardware with underlying services (including linear TV more on that below), much as Apple was uniquely able to effectively do originally with the iPod/iTunes to transform the music business and the overall consumer music experience.
Open rooms were more likely to be judged as beautiful, and activated structures underlying perceived visual motion.
It was a beautiful spot, but its underlying geology — the convergence of two fault lines — was so volatile that officials had for years considered razing the town, which was the county seat, and rebuilding it elsewhere.
This course will explore some of the intriguing and beautiful mathematics that underlies the arts, technology, and everyday life.
If there was a mantra underlying this wistfully beautiful concert (part of Lincoln Center's White Light Festival), it was "All is one". The survey of traditional Jewish, Christian and Muslim music from the Balkans highlighted the cultural cohesion of that politically fragmented part of the world.
Suppose, further, that a domain, such as perhaps ethics or aesthetics, are "response dependent," constituted by our conceptual responses; suppose, that is, that what determines the nature of, say, the good, the funny, or the beautiful are simply the principles underlying people's competence with their concepts of them.
"There's a dream that underlying the physical universe is some beautiful mathematical structure, and that the job of physics is to discover that," Smolin told me later.
