A Brief History of String Theory by Dean Rickles

Author:Dean Rickles
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg

2Michael Redhead writes that “the bootstrap programme was not so much refuted as overtaken by the new fundamentalist approach involving truly basic constitutes like quarks and gluons” ([47, p. 573).

3I might also note that, in terms of the poor job prospects for dual theorists, this was very likely also a symptom of the 1973-5 financial crisis, which in the UK at least involved a very severe ‘double-dip’ recession leading to general hiring freezes. (John Schwarz has pointed out that the academic job market was already very bad for all physicists in 1972, adding that he was very fortunate that Gell-Mann ‘discovered’ him at that time (private communication).)

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