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Frank Wilczek on the Strong Force, Quarks and Dark Matter

The Joy of x

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How Did You Find a Quantum Field Theory?

When you say we, you mean you and your advisor, I guess. Yeah, my advisor was as David Gross, who's a very, very distinguished physicist. And so within a few weeks, we went from groping around in this formal problem of could you find a theory that accounted for this behavior to a very specific candidate theory,. Not only for that behavior, but for what the strong interactions are, period.

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