Don’t try to solve a problem until you think you have the answer. That approach was the opposite of how particle physics usually worked. In particle physics, the math came first. The math told you that a particle should exist, and that you could create that hypothetical particle from existing particles. Then you (and a thousand colleagues) commandeered an accelerator and smashed those existing particles together at velocities approaching the speed of light and waited for the hypothetical particle to pop into existence. Nothing wrong with that approach. It worked. But Feynman had taught Turner
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