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|content=I have a question about Physicists eating at me. Why is X more famous than Yang where X is not equal to Dirac, Einstein and a few others?
|content=I have a question about Physicists eating at me. Why is X more famous than [[CN Yang|Yang]] where X is not equal to Dirac, Einstein and a few others?
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|content=I find what CN Yang says about the mid-1970s so important that I keep a constant lookout for any tid-bit about the experiences of 1975-7.
|content=I find what [[CN Yang]] says about the mid-1970s so important that I keep a constant lookout for any tid-bit about the experiences of 1975-7.
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|content=2/ When I was around 16-17, I learned of a story that fascinated me much more than it seemed to captivate any other mathematician or physicist. It was the story of the discovery of the "Wu-Yang" dictionary around 1975-6, involving 3 super-minds: [[Jim Simons]], [[CN Yang]] & [[Isadore Singer|Is Singer]].
|content=2/ When I was around 16-17, I learned of a story that fascinated me much more than it seemed to captivate any other mathematician or physicist. It was the story of the discovery of the [[Wu-Yang Dictionary|"Wu-Yang" dictionary]] around 1975-6, involving 3 super-minds: [[Jim Simons]], [[CN Yang]] & [[Isadore Singer|Is Singer]].
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|content=I would say the one who awes me most is...[[CN Yang]]. I don’t understand why I never hear his name as candidate. He has at least 3 of the greatest achievements: chirality for the weak force (w/ Lee), non-Abelian maxwell theory (w/ Mills), and the bundle revolution (w/ Simons/Wu).
|content=I would say the one who awes me most is...[[CN Yang]]. I don’t understand why I never hear his name as candidate. He has at least 3 of the greatest achievements: chirality for the weak force (w/ Lee), non-Abelian maxwell theory (w/ Mills), and the bundle revolution (w/ [[Jim Simons|Simons]]/Wu).
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|content=As for Weinberg, he is one of three people I can make the case for as our “Greatest Living Physicist”. I’ve met him. But he still has big bets which are undecided (e.g. asymptotic safety). Witten is somehow even smarter but less accomplished in standard predictive theory. But...
|content=As for Weinberg, he is one of three people I can make the case for as our “Greatest Living Physicist”. I’ve met him. But he still has big bets which are undecided (e.g. asymptotic safety). [[Ed Witten|Witten]] is somehow even smarter but less accomplished in standard predictive theory. But...
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Yau is an extraordinary mind. Time to wake up.
Yau is an extraordinary mind. Time to wake up.


https://t.co/lqdOzXXG8B
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3175081/chinese-born-maths-genius-leaves-harvard-help-china-become
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=== 2023 ===
 
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|content=So you have my list. It is incomplete and idiosyncratic. I’d love to have your corrections and additions.
 
So….Where is yours? Thanks again.
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|content=It is an interesting question as to who inspires us in physics. Here is a list of 20th century giants whose work inspired me that might work as protagonists with interesting stories that deserve to be considered along with the best known Einstein/Hawking/Oppenheimer/Etc.:
 
[[CN Yang]] (with Lee and Simons)</br>
[[Paul Dirac]]</br>
Ernst Stueckelberg</br>
[[Madame Wu]]</br>
David Bohm</br>
Abdus Salam</br>
[[Ken Wilson]]</br>
[[Emmy Noether]]</br>
Ettore Majorana</br>
Carlo Rubio</br>
Shin'ichirō Tomonaga</br>
[[Lev Landau]]</br>
Simon Van der Meer</br>
Freeman Dyson</br>
Julian Schwinger</br>
Paul Ehrenfest</br>
John VonNeumann</br>
Feza Gursey</br>
Wolfgang Pauli</br>
Louis and [[Ed Witten|Edward Witten]]</br>
Hans Bethe</br>
George Sudarshan</br>
Vera Rubin</br>
Gerard 't Hooft
 
Not all of those stories are…uh…simple.
 
Would be curious to hear names from others.
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|content=i was hoping that the oppenheimer movie would inspire a generation of kids to be physicists but it really missed the mark on that.
 
let's get that movie made!
 
(i think the social network managed to do this for startup founders.)
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|content=But let’s face facts: inspiration is not the issue. Fundamental Physics needs to be a good life. What is holding us back is:
 
A) Terrible Pay.
 
B) Worse Odds of Survival
 
C) Decoupling of Success at Physics from Success in Physics
 
D) The Matthew Effect.
 
E) Math and Physics Pricks
 
F) Tyranny of large programs over individuals.
 
G) Multi Decade Stagnation
 
H) Un Scientific And even Anti-scientific behavior.
 
I) The Matilde Effect
 
J) The Sudarshan Effect
 
K) Ethics Collapse
 
L) Needlessly long pedagogical sequence (e.g. intro physics -> Classical Mechanics -> Grad Classical Mechanics -> Symplectic Geometry)  driven by history.
 
M) Socializing physics into a team sport in areas dominated by individuals and iconoclasts.
 
N) Tolerance for Program level failure (e.g. *obsessive* use of toy model physics to evade a reckoning).
 
O) Intolerance for individual error and failure by those in programs.
 
P) Failure to reward early contributions (e.g. *Abelian* Chern Simons QFT).
 
Q) Atrocious MSM journalism distorting the public understanding.
 
R) Relentless discussion of woo physics in public and 3-5 real topics (e.g. somebodies cat).
 
S) Learned Helplessness coming from over-learning Ken Wilson.
 
T) Inability to support motherhood of female physicists.
 
U) Inability to keep physics marriages easily together with jobs.
 
V) DEI loyalty oaths and loss of autonomy.
 
W) Flooding of markets with disposable labor and abuse apprenticeship as labor.
 
X) Kicking up on attribution.
 
Y) Overpaying for cherry topping.
 
Z) Fetishizing the quantum when innovation in classical field theory remains the heart of QFT.
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|content=But lastly, if outsiders want to fund and fix movies, you will find that going to the “Leading physicists” won’t work. Peer review can’t work when the leadership *is* the problem. You get more failure.
 
You need to hold meetings where you get disagreement. So choose the leaders and iconoclasts with great care. Patrick Collison isn’t terrible at this. B+. Best I have ever seen. Start there. Good luck. 🙏
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