Is Nature Simple? 2018 Breakthrough Prize Symposium Panel

Kim Nasmyth (University of Oxford), Terry Tao (UCLA), David Spergel (Princeton University) and Yuri Milner (Moderator). Science seeks simple causes underpinning complex events. But how do we know nature is simple? Could it be fundamentally complex? If so, can science ever hope to tease out its secrets? Why was the Universe at the Big Bang almost completely simple? Could life be much simpler in structure than RNA/DNA-based life? Are simpler mathematical proofs intrinsically more valuable? Is simplicity itse