Epstein Secrets

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

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

th the panel's Democrat, Pennsylvania Rep. Susan Wild, who said she expected to move "rather quickly" o

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.

th the panel's Democrat, Pennsylvania Rep. Susan Wild, who said she expected to move "rather quickly" o

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.

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

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