W. O. BAKER 



ber we are trying here to illustrate some difficulties which will 

 come in looking to evolving theory to guide a research struc- 

 ture and purpose in this socially sensitive field of nuclear 

 science. Yet Professor Gell-Mann, in discussing the position of 

 nuclear field theory, refers to Soviet concerns about negative 

 probabilities, when the theory is applied to some subcritical 

 distances. Then, in improving general understanding by use 

 of symmetry principles in describing particle systematics it is 

 necessary to bring in "strangeness" numbers and other things 

 far beyond the intuition of even most particle theorists (and 

 that is very far indeed). Similarly, Professor Dyson quotes a 

 comment made by Professor Bohr recently, after a seminar 

 given by the late Wolfgang Pauli: "We are all agreed that your 

 theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is 

 crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling 

 is that it is not crazy enough." 



The possible emergence of theoretical frameworks too 

 occult for effective guidance toward a general end in research 



Figure 5. Discovery of radioastronomy was connected with new 

 antenna concept, produced by Karl Jansky, shown here. 



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