Epstein Secrets

Events to date have included hundreds of the world's most renowned scientists, intellectuals, and writers including Steven Hawking, Richard Dawkins, Freeman Dyson, Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker, Wendy Freedman, Craig Venter, Ian McEwan, Neal Stephenson, Svante Paabo, Werner Herzog, and Cormac McCarthy, as well

Werner Herzog, and Cormac McCarthy, as well as Nobel Laureates including Steven Weinberg, David Gross, Frank Wilczek, Sidney Altman, Lee Hartwell, Sheldon Glashow, Baruch Blumberg, Adam Reiss, Brian Schmidt, and John Mather. I got to know Ms. through her work with the Enhanced Education Foundation, which ha

) was a "renormalizable" theory, allowing precise predictions of all physical quantities one could possibly measure in the theory, was completed by Freeman Dyson. His proof gave QED an unprecedented status in physics. QED provided a complete theory of the quantum interactions of electrons and light, with pr

lating the weak interac- tion to electromagnetism that he encouraged one of his dozen graduate students at Harvard at the time to explore the issue. Sheldon Glashow graduated in 1958 with a thesis on the subject and continued to explore the issue for the next few years as a National Science Foundation post- doc

was short-range? These problems continued to suggest to some that quantum field theory was the wrong approach for understanding the strong force. Freeman Dyson, who had played such an important role in the develop- ment of the first successful quantum field theory, quantum electrody- namics, asserted, when d

and was invited (in 1966) to speak at several locations in the USA, where he was spending a sabbati- cal year. After Higgs's talk at Harvard, where Sheldon Glashow was now a professor, Glashow apparently complimented him on having invented a "nice model" and moved on. Such was the fixation on the strong in- te