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- W2080252254 abstract "We are all very happy that Ray is receiving the honor that he so richly deserves. Einstein had said Subtle is the Lord..... Indeed nature presents layers upon layers of subtlety. To us at every moment, some of these subtleties appear necessary, others not. Take as an example, quantum theory. According to classical physics around the beginning of the 20th century, all matter should be unstable. Some new concepts were urgently needed to stabilize matter. Thus quantum theory was born, as a necessary subtlety at the time. Or take string theory now. It was invented to amalgamate quantum theory with gravity. Should it be successful, it would be a necessary subtlety. Now consider strange particles around the late 1940s. It was uncalled for. Their appearance was therefore an unnecessary subtlety. It remains so to this day. An unnecessary subtlety may in time become a necessary subtlety. Consider, for example the theory of energetics. To its adherents such as Mach and Ostwald, kinetic theory, if relevant, was an unnecessary subtlety. Of course, in time, kinetic theory became a necessary subtlety. Or, consider the strange particles, once considered unnecessary. In today's understanding of the standard model, they are necessary subtleties. Personally I tend to disbelieve unnecessary subtleties. That is perhaps why Dyson called me conservative. I did not believe in neutrino oscillations, even after Davis' painstaking work and BahcalFs careful analysis: the oscillations were, I believed, uncalled for. Now, after the beautiful experiments which we shall hear about in the next few days, I have to surrender and accept neutrino oscillations as reality, but still as unnecessary subtleties. However, like all physicists, I have deep faith in our discipline, and believe in the beauty and elegance of the fundamental structure of the physical universe. So I have to believe that in time, neutrino oscillations will become, through new depths of penetration, necessary subtleties." @default.
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- W2080252254 title "NECESSARY SUBTLETY AND UNNECESSARY SUBTLETY" @default.
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