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From the Ted Talk by Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty, truth and ... physics?

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The last two, the first equation says that ecreltic charges and currents give rise to all the electric and magnetic fields. The next — second — equation says that there is no mniegastm other than that. The only magnetism comes from electric charges and currents. Someday we may find some shlgit hole in that argument. But for the moment, that's the case.

Now, here is a very exciting development that many people have not heard of. They should have heard of it, but it's a little tricky to explain in taenihccl detail, so I won't do it. I'll just mention it. (lhgteuar) But Chen Ning Yang, called by us "Frank" Yang — (Laughter) — and Bob Mills put forward, 50 years ago, this generalization of Maxwell's equations, with a new stmermyy. A whole new symmetry. macmtaihtes very similar, but there was a whole new symmetry. They hoped that this would contribute somehow to particle physics — didn't. It didn't, by itself, contribute to particle physics.

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The last two, the first equation says that ________ charges and currents give rise to all the electric and magnetic fields. The next — second — equation says that there is no _________ other than that. The only magnetism comes from electric charges and currents. Someday we may find some ______ hole in that argument. But for the moment, that's the case.

Now, here is a very exciting development that many people have not heard of. They should have heard of it, but it's a little tricky to explain in _________ detail, so I won't do it. I'll just mention it. (________) But Chen Ning Yang, called by us "Frank" Yang — (Laughter) — and Bob Mills put forward, 50 years ago, this generalization of Maxwell's equations, with a new ________. A whole new symmetry. ___________ very similar, but there was a whole new symmetry. They hoped that this would contribute somehow to particle physics — didn't. It didn't, by itself, contribute to particle physics.

Solution


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  2. technical
  3. magnetism
  4. laughter
  5. electric
  6. symmetry
  7. mathematics

Original Text


The last two, the first equation says that electric charges and currents give rise to all the electric and magnetic fields. The next — second — equation says that there is no magnetism other than that. The only magnetism comes from electric charges and currents. Someday we may find some slight hole in that argument. But for the moment, that's the case.

Now, here is a very exciting development that many people have not heard of. They should have heard of it, but it's a little tricky to explain in technical detail, so I won't do it. I'll just mention it. (Laughter) But Chen Ning Yang, called by us "Frank" Yang — (Laughter) — and Bob Mills put forward, 50 years ago, this generalization of Maxwell's equations, with a new symmetry. A whole new symmetry. Mathematics very similar, but there was a whole new symmetry. They hoped that this would contribute somehow to particle physics — didn't. It didn't, by itself, contribute to particle physics.

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