The main focus
of this talk is an anecdotal account of the history underlying my 1974 article
entitled “Confinement of Quarks.” In preparing this talk, I will draw on a
historical interview conducted by the project for History of Recent Science and
Technology at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at
MIT, and on a theory of invention proposed by Peter Drucker in his book
“Innovation and Entrepreneurship.” I will explain this theory; no background is
needed. The account will start with related work in the 1960’s. I will end the
talk with a plea for lattice gauge researchers to be alert for unexpected
scalar or vector colored particles that are invisible to experimentalists yet
could start to spoil the agreement of computations with experiment.
Note:
In association with the Symposium “Lattice 2004,” June 21 – 26, 2004