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>>11194165
c'mon what? if you don't think it is promising, then you are at odds with the greatest living physicist as well as most of the other top living physicists

>In Feynman’s Nobel speech, he tells the story of poor Slotnick, whose just-finished Ph.D. dissertation Feynman had reproduced, and more, in a single night. Not surprisingly, Slotnick never wrote another paper. And stories had it that Feynman affected others the same way. I have earlier mentioned that first meeting with Witten, which was a little bit like Slotnick’s meeting with Feynman. But I don’t think that Edward has ever shown the highly competitive streak of Feynman; instead, he is competing with history. But each new paper from him gave me the joy of reading, and the question, “why am I needed?”

witten is a great genius and he wouldn't be barking up the wrong tree if he knew it to be so. he is competing with history and nobody else in the world is qualified enough to say jack shit to him, and even the closest people out there (weinberg, gross, maldacena, arkani-hamed, seiberg, etc etc) are on his team. the only people who shit on string theory are buttblasted brainlets

anybody know who the dude on the right is? is that a young seiberg or something?