Re: >H PHYS: M-theory

From: Eugene Leitl (eugene@liposome.genebee.msu.su)
Date: Fri Feb 13 1998 - 05:58:36 MST


On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Kathryn Aegis wrote:

> [...]
> Still, you have to love a quote like this one: 'Indeed, future
> terrestial historians may judge the late 20th century as a time when
> theorists were like children playing on the seashore, diverting
> themselves with the smoother pebbles or prettier shells of
> superstrings while the great ocean of M-theory lay undiscovered
> before them.'

It is a late-Newton rip-off.

'gene



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