Angela Collier on Quarks and Bootstraps
She read this book by Geoffrey F.Chew: S-Matrix Theory of Strong Interactions . Wow, you don't hear much about ideas like this these days! See Fritjof Capra's 1984 interview with Geoffrey Chew and Wikipedia's entry on The Bootstrap Model . And I just found out that my old boss Peter Landshoff was doing S-Matrix stuff in 1966, and he co-authored a book called The Analytic S-Matrix by R. J. Eden, P. V. Landshoff, D. I. Olive and J. C. Polkinghorne which CUP will print-on-demand for the princely sum of US$71 (plus postage I shouldn't wonder). I remember he used to write his own numerical calculations in C and run these programs for days on end. One in particular he unwisely named www (because it was a 3-particle weak-interaction calculation) and this stupid computer officer (not me) killed it because they thought it must be a web browser zombie process, because it had been running for three days and was taking up 90% of the CPU. My comment : 29:05 Well I don...