Epstein Secrets

d biology, and the theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss — to "salons and coffee klatsches" at which Mr.

matics and biology, and the theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss — to "salons and coffee klatsches" at whi

ven Pinker said he was invited by colleagues — including Martin Nowak, a Harvard professor of mathematics and biology, and the theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss — to "salons and coffee klatsches" at which Mr. Epstein would hold court. While some of Mr. Pinker's peers hailed Mr. Epstein as brilliant, Mr. Pin

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.

d biology, and the theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss — to "salons and coffee klatsches" at which Mr.

matics and biology, and the theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss — to "salons and coffee klatsches" at whi

ven Pinker said he was invited by colleagues — including Martin Nowak, a Harvard professor of mathematics and biology, and the theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss — to "salons and coffee klatsches" at which Mr. Epstein would hold court. While some of Mr. Pinker's peers hailed Mr. Epstein as brilliant, Mr. Pin

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.

nd energy.Earlier, before I moved to Harvard and was still at MIT, a friend of mine at the time, Lawrence Hall, was a graduate student at Harvard. Lawrence was ahead of me in his work, graduating before me. He told me that he was only able to complete the work that became his thesis with Weinberg becau

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