EDGE CHALLENGES LEADING THINKERS TO NAME THEIR 'FAVOURITE EXPLANATIONS'In its annual question, Edge magazine asks 'What is your favourite deep, elegant or beautiful explanation?'

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, Einstein's reinterpretation of the cosmos through general relativity and the idea that we live in one of an infinity of universes are some of the most elegant and beautiful human ideas, according to a group of the world's leading thinkers.