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The Eightfold way. A day, in Cambridge MA, in Indian Summer, in 1990, that I WILL NEVER FORGET. An example of clarity in a storm of confusion. Sure footedness on slippery slopes.pic.twitter.com/jlpjyC4gZW
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Do you remember when you got shown the eightfold way?
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I got it as “here’s a musty old thing,” but I saw it as a leap of creativity in a confusing world, and I empathized because that’s what us poor grad students felt like
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I just love representation theory and think that the fact that the eightfold way just pops out of saying asymptotic states need to be color singlets is just wonderful
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Exactly. And Gell-Mann was making it up as he went. He didn’t have a bunch of geometers showing him new representations. Amazing as fuck!
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Or something like that.. I can’t remember who said it
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A lot of physics is like that. The more powerful the insight, the more likely it is to be adopted and worked over so thoroughly that the initial idea seems trivial or even quaint— but it’s NOT.
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The day the theory of everything is published, it will be trivial the following day.
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