Well, they were fiddling around with proto-stringy ideas ("dual models") as models for nuclear physics before settling on quarks; AFAIK, the idea of thinking about it in terms of flux tubes is a later retrospective. arxiv.org/abs/0802.3249

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If you try to bootstrap the S-matrix of strongly-interacting quantum field theory from first principles (unitarity, Lorentz-invariance etc.), you sooner or later end up with the Veneziano amplitude, which was later realized to correspond to the scattering amplitude of open bosonic strings.

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The funniest thing about this is he put that 🗑️ "stereotype accuracy" (code for vicious things like racist tropes being actually true and leftists apparently deny their truth) which I think is their idea of a gotcha. Like me saying this slide is wrong is me denying stereotypes! Boom they got me. 🌬️

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How is this a surprise? I find Google an utter mystery. At times they give the impression of being led by a troupe of shambling otherworldly academics. And at other times by a collection of out-of-touch profiteering narcissists. I don’t think I’m repeating myself…

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I don’t think Pat Buchanan cares about cost of living. Probably sees it as an advantage.

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