Epstein Secrets

confidence, and from ugliness to beauty. It's a wild ride, with a few detours that might seem to come

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

ity. After all, humans are capable of generating wild stories to explain what is otherwise not understo

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

is similarly fleeting, we can at least enjoy the wild ride we have taken and relish every aspect of the

after I finished the first version of this book. I received com- ments and useful suggestions and corrections in response, and I want to thank both Sheldon Glashow and Wally Gilbert for their suggestions, as well as Richard Dawkins, and I am particularly indebted to one of the colleagues I admire most for his