New Morning

Waking up today to the news that US democracy seems to be on its way to recovery has changed my mood dramatically. All of a sudden I’m an optimist. The US will be all right. Even if the French do the same dumb thing we did next year, at the next election it will get fixed. The murderous racists in power in Israel will be toppled by the votes of the targets of their racism. As a result, the gates here at Columbia will open and the contract for the massive security force not renewed. On top of this, there’s a new paper by Witten: A Note On Lattice Definition of Gauge Theories With Chiral Fermions. He’s getting away from the unpromising topics that have dominated IAS theoretical physics for a very long time, and thinking about something actually interesting and important, that of how to non-perturbatively define the central structure of the Standard Model: four dimensional spinors with chiral gauge couplings. One interesting thing to note is that Witten credits Claude Opus 5.5 with…

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