My thoughts drifted to Berkeley, last April. The rationale for my trip to the U.S.—an invitation to present a paper. The world’s best minds in experimental physics gathered for the symposium at UC and heard nothing from me to revolutionize my reputation or their understanding of the universe. My monograph outlined a method for streamlining an excruciatingly complex quantum mechanical equation. At best, it was a stepping stone on someone else’s road to Stockholm. For me, it was a desperate measure to keep my job and funding for the project that would earn my place in the history books.
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© 2008 Edward F. Gumnick
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