Weinberg's proposal of 1990: A very personal view

Abstract

My personal encounter with Weinberg's proposal of 1990 was a really entertaining one: My collaborator David Entem and I had embarked to show that Weinberg's idea, though smart and beautiful, was essentially useless in practice (like so many of those genius ideas of the 1980s where people claimed to have "derived the nuclear force from QCD"). However, in trying to do so, we showed the opposite; namely, we showed that Weinberg's idea worked better than allowed by any reasonable means.

5 pages. Contribution to Special Issue of Few-Body Systems: Celebrating 30 years of Steven Weinberg's papers on Nuclear Forces from Chiral Lagrangians

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