But the most promising arena for progress these days is astronomy, he says. The paper was part of a programme of many decades — a concern with symmetries, especially broken ones — which went back to the early s, at least to my paper with Goldstone and Salam raising the issue of massless Goldstone bosons, after which Higgs et al.
I guess mine was a key paper in that department, but I had been working on broken symmetries in the context of strong interactions for a decade.
Then there is the development of effective theories, which is not so much a theory but a point of view. It takes a lot of minds over a long period. Weinberg illustrates the process with the example of chicken sexing. It is important in the poultry business to be able to determine the sex of newborn chicks, he says, and there was a school that taught the science of chicken sexing by giving people a newborn chick and asking them to say whether it was male of female: if they guessed wrong, they would receive some sort of punishment, while if they guessed right they got some kind of reward.
After repeating the process hundreds of times, people began to guess correctly. I mean, obviously there are broader questions such as: why is there something rather than nothing? There are all kinds of frustrations, he says. I am enjoying what I am doing and I have had a good run, and I have a few more years. Forty years after the publication of his famous book The First Three Minutes , which has been translated into 22 languages and for which he still receives royalty cheques, he intends to go on writing.
He has a contract with Cambridge University Press to publish a new book called Lectures on Astrophysics based on his current teaching activities and is bringing out a third collection of popular essays with Harvard University Press, with a fourth planned. I like that so much. Yet Weinberg is not your stereotypical lost-in-his-work genius who locks himself away for long periods to work on a problem. He recalls one day he came out of the shower and exclaimed to his wife that he had figured out why the cosmological constant is so small at a time before he had started thinking about anthropic explanations.
So ideas come to you all the time and most of them are no good, and every once in a while you find one that is good and you have fun working at your desk.
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