Everyman physics

Who Are the Entrepreneurs: The Elite or Everyman?

We trace the evolving social positions of the people who found new enterprises over the course of industry history. Sociological theory suggests two opposing hypotheses. First, pioneering entrepreneurs are socially prominent individuals or those from related industries while later entrepreneurs are from an increasingly broad range of social positions. Second, the earliest entrepreneurs come fro...

PRIMES Is in P: A Breakthrough for "Everyman", Volume 50, Number 5

“New Method Said to Solve Key Problem in Math” was the headline of a story in the New York Times on August 8, 2002, meaning the proof of the statement primes ∈ P, hitherto a big open problem in algorithmic number theory and theoretical computer science. Manindra Agrawal, Neeraj Kayal, and Nitin Saxena of the Indian Institute of Technology accomplished the proof through a surprisingly elegant an...

B Physics B Physics

A summary of the most recent and important measurements in b physics is presented. The production of beauty particles in Z decays, b quark couplings, lifetimes, B-B0 oscillations, semileptonic b decays and studies of the number of charm quarks produced in b decays are reviewed. Extraction of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements |Vtd|, |Vcb|, |Vub| and implication for |Vts| are di...

Quantum Physics: A Case for Anti-Realism?

quantum physics: a case for anti-realism?

the aim of the present paper is to sbo» that anti-realism in science, 1vhich has a1;guab/y become more fashionable in recentyears, contrary to tuha: its proponents assert, cannot make use of quantum mechanics and its impressiue achievements as a frump card in justifying its claims. i will argue that scientific anti-realism far from providing scientific communiry with a progressive methodologica...