Epstein Secrets

strength of the Z interaction. Still, questions remained, especially given the apparent disagree- ment with the Seattle/Oxford results. At a talk at Caltech on the subject, Richard Feynman, characteristically, homed in on a key outstanding ex- perimental question and asked whether the SLAC experimentalis

ry. However, Gross and Wilczek recognized the natural candidate was the Yang-Mills theory that Greenberg and others had posited was neces- sary for Gell-Mann's quark hypothesis to explain the observed nature of elementary particles. In this theory each quark carries one of three 2P_Glealer-StoryEverTold_At

pointlike particles. Feynman then interpreted these objects as real particles, which he dubbed partons, and suggested they could be identified with Gell-Mann's quarks. This picture had a big problem, however. If all strongly interact- ing particles were composed of quarks, then quarks should surely be stro

ho was one of Mr. Epstein's defense lawyers in the 2008 case. Luminaries at Mr. Epstein's St. Thomas conference in 2006 included Mr. Hawking and the Caltech theoretical physicist Kip S. Thorne. One participant at that conference, which was ostensibly on the subject of gravity, recalled that Mr. Epstein

ended the dinner, was quoted as saying. Mr. Dubno told The Times that he did not recall the dinner or having said those words. Mr. Brockman was Mr. Gell-Mann's agent, and Mr. Gell-Mann, in the acknowledgments section of his 1995 book "The Quark and the Jaguar," thanked Mr. Epstein for his financial support.

ho was one of Mr. Epstein's defense lawyers in the 2008 case. Luminaries at Mr. Epstein's St. Thomas conference in 2006 included Mr. Hawking and the Caltech theoretical physicist Kip S. Thome. One participant at that conference, which was ostensibly on the subject of gravity, recalled that Mr. Epstein w

ended the dinner, was quoted as saying. Mr. Dubno told The Times that he did not recall the dinner or having said those words. Mr. Brockman was Mr. Gell-Mann's agent, and Mr. Gell-Mann, in the acknowledgments section of his 1995 book "The Quark and the Jaguar," thanked Mr. Epstein for his financial support.

nvited Sudarshan and another student to join him. The two most renowned particle theorists in the world then, Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann, were at Caltech, and each had become obsessed with unraveling the form of the weak interaction. Feynman had missed out on the discovery of parity violation by not

ported to the physics community by Murray Gell-Mann at the 1960 Rochester meeting, as Gell-Mann had by then recruited Glashow to Caltech to work in Gell-Mann's group. Glashow's paper on the subject, submitted in 1960, appeared in 1961 in print. Yet, no sudden stampede occurred in response. After all, two