Epstein Secrets

theory—the suc- cessful framework that had so beautifully provided an understanding of the relativistic quantum behavior of electrons and photons. Berkeley physicist Geoffrey Chew led the development of a popu- lar, influential program to address this problem. Chew gave up the idea that any truly fundam

ound states of other particles. In this sense, there could be no reduction to primary fundamental objects. In this Zen-like picture, appropriate to Berkeley in the 196os, all particles were thought to be made up of other particles—the so-called bootstrap model, in which no elementary particles were prim

will not be found in the next hundred years." One of those who were convinced that quantum field theory was doomed was a brilliant young theorist, David Gross. Trained under Geoffrey Chew, the inventor of the bootstrap picture of nuclear democ- racy, in which elementary particles were an illusion masking a

, Marvin Minsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Erik Mueller (IBM T. J. WatsonResearch Center), Srini Narayanan (University of California, Berkeley), Ashwin Ram (Georgia Institute of Technology), Doug Riecken (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Roger Schank (Carnegie Mellon University), Mary She

g three Nobel Prize winners, are meeting in the U.S. Virgin Islands to debate the structure of the universe. Nobel prize winners Gerardus 't Hoeft, David Gross and Frank Wilczek, and experimental and theoretical physics pioneer Stephen Hawking are among the minds that have converged in the island of St. Th

Marvin Minsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Erik Mueller (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Srini Narayanan (University of California, Berkeley), Ashwin Ram (Georgia Institute of Technology), Doug Riecken (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Roger Schenk (Carnegie Mellon University), Mary She

ng three Nobel Prize winners, are meeting in the U.S. Virgin Islands to debate the structure of the universe. Nobel prize winners Gerardo 't Hooft, David Gross and Frank Wilczek, and experimental and theoretical physics pioneer Stephen Hawking are among the minds that have converged in the island of St Tho

Marvin Minsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Erik Mueller (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Srini Narayanan (University of California, Berkeley), Ashwin Ram (Georgia Institute of Technology), Doug Riecken (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Roger Schank (Carnegie Mellon University), Mary She

g three Nobel Prize winners, are meeting in the U.S. Virgin Islands to debate the structure of the universe. Nobel prize winners Gerardus 't Hooft, David Gross and Frank Wilczek, and experimental and theoretical physics pioneer Stephen Hawking are among the minds that have converged in the island of St. Th