If You Know The Wavefunction

My Colleagues In Elementary Particle Theory In Many Lands [and I] Are Driven By The Usual Insatiable Curiosity Of The Scientist, And Our Work Is A Delightful Game. I Am Frequently Astonished That It So Often Results In Correct Predictions Of Experimental Results. How Can It Be That Writing Down A Few Simple And Elegant Formulae, Like Short Poems Governed By Strict Rules Such As Those Of The Sonnet Or The Waka, Can Predict Universal Regularities Of Nature?

You Know, There Was A Time, Just Before I Started To Study Physical Science, When Astronomers Thought That Systems Such As We Have Here In The Solar System Required A Rare Triple Collision Of Stars

What Is Especially Striking And Remarkable Is That In Fundamental Physics A Beautiful Or Elegant Theory Is More Likely To Be Right Than A Theory That Is Inelegant.

In Fact Any Experiment That Measures A Quantum Effect Is One In Which The Quantum Effect Is Aligned With The Behavior Of Some Heavy, Macroscopic Object; That's How We Measure It

I Do Not Keep Up With The Details Of Particle Physics.