![]() ![]() ![]() And the cancellation of the SSC probably added to that tension between the two.īut I don’t think she came of it from taking a side. There was some unhappiness in the theoretical field. She was extremely dismissive of string theory, and thought it was-you know, there was-my impression from her and from other people of that generation that weren’t doing string theory was that the string theorists were colluding in a sense, or were dismissing anything but string theory, and deciding that if you did string theory then you’re much smarter than the people who are not doing string theory. Some extracts follow:Ībout Ann Nelson and string theory in the 1990s: The whole thing is quite interesting and I recommend reading it, but I do want to point out that it shows that I’m a voice of moderation on the string theory issue. Kaplan…) by David Zierler at the AIP Oral Histories site. ![]()
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