What Does Any of This Have to Do with Physics? (2016)

That was because I was the only one holding out for high-energy theory, aka theoretical particle physics—Rajeev’s specialty. I’d quit a good job as an electrical engineer in Southern California and come to Rochester with a dream of studying fundamental physics and pursuing its Holy Grail: a theory of quantum gravity that would reconcile quantum mechanics with Einstein’s general theory of relativity and therefore, as I understood things at the time, amount to a Theory of Everything. Rajeev had said little about his research or his group, and the only question he’d asked me was that one problem at the end.

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