Think How Hard Physics Would Be If

Our Planet Doesn't Seem To Be The Result Of Anything Very Special

I Think Also Of My Colleagues In Elementary Particle Theory In Many Lands, And Feel That In Some Measure I Am Here As A Representative Of Our Small, Informal, International Fraternity.

Hugh Everett's Work Has Been Described By Many People In Terms Of Many Worlds, The Idea Being That Every One Of The Various Alternative Histories, Branching Histories, Is Assigned Some Sort Of Reality.

Of Course The Word Chaos Is Used In Rather A Vague Sense By A Lot Of Writers, But In Physics It Means A Particular Phenomenon, Namely That In A Nonlinear System The Outcome Is Often Indefinitely, Arbitrarily Sensitive To Tiny Changes In The Initial Condition

What Is Especially Striking And Remarkable Is That In Fundamental Physics A Beautiful Or Elegant Theory Is More Likely To Be Right Than A Theory That Is Inelegant.