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It is more important to have beauty in the equations of physics than to have them agree with experiments . The great British physicist P.A.M. Dirac held this view. Criticise this statement. Look out for some equations and results in this book which strike you as beautiful .

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The statement of great Dritish Physicist P. A. M. Dirac is partially ture. For example, `F = m a , E= mc^2` are
some of the simple and beautiful equations of physics which have universal application.
However, this is not the case always. The equations involved in general theory of relativity and some of the
latest works of higher Physics are neither simple nor beautiful. They are rather difficult to understand.
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