Shelter Island II

Proceedings of the 1983 Shelter Island Conference on Quantum Field Theory and the Fundamental Problems of Physics

By: Edward Witten,Nicola N. Khuri,Roman Jackiw,Steven Weinberg

since robert oppenheimer called the first shelter island conference in 1947 to consolidate the advances in theoretical physics made during the war and to chart a course for the development of a "pure" physics far removed from defense applications, physics appears once again to have reached a critical juncture. "shelter island ii" held at that same remote inn off the eastern tip of long island...