Posted: Jul 24, 2021 3:12 pm
Firs tentative reports from trusted sources that Steven Weinberg has died. It seems not to have filtered through and his Wiki hasn't been updated, but physicist john Baez (famed for the Crackpot Index) has tweeted:
"Steven Weinberg died!
For all the talk of unification, there are few examples. Newton unified terrestrial and celestial gravity - apples and planets. Maxwell unified electricity and magnetism. Weinberg, Glashow and Salam unified electromagnetism and the weak force."
Weinberg wrote one of the major standard textbooks for General Relativity, named the quark, and was the leader in supersymmetric grand unification.
"Steven Weinberg died!
For all the talk of unification, there are few examples. Newton unified terrestrial and celestial gravity - apples and planets. Maxwell unified electricity and magnetism. Weinberg, Glashow and Salam unified electromagnetism and the weak force."
Weinberg wrote one of the major standard textbooks for General Relativity, named the quark, and was the leader in supersymmetric grand unification.