JIM THE LONG-HAUL TRUCKER

Jim, when he’s done with one of his cross-country trucking runs, hauling, let’s say, auto parts from Atlanta to Seattle, likes to kick back, put on Iannis Xenakis at full volume, and read about quantum transformation theory, which is an early version of of quantum mechanics, which allows each particle to have its own relativistic wave equation for the electron and was the first successful attack on the problem of relativistic quantum mechanics. When the Xenakis is over, he likes to walk to the garbage dump behind his house, among the tires and rusting microwaves, thinking about the predictions he heard on CNN about what the planet will look like by 2200 – how Florida will look like the Great Barrier Reef and the Great Barrier Reef will look like Lookout Mountain, Georgia and so forth, and Jim also thinks about the existence of matter–antimatter annihilation and arbitrary quantities of quantum divergence in classical point particle theory combining advanced and retarded waves to eliminate the classical electron problems in quantum electrodynamics. He also remembers his friend John Archibald discussing the Vancouver Olympics. What’s with those skating costumes the men wear?, wondered John. Why is “skeleton” called that? If curling can be an Olympic sport, why not bowlng and shuffleboard? Where can I take biathalon lessons? Jim then thinks about the truck he must drive from Bellingham, Washington to Baltimore on Monday with his load of glass for the new tank they’re building for the aquarium. Perhaps John Archibald thinks aquarium improvements should be an Olympic contest as well. On the walk back home, in the February rain, Jim’s thoughts turn to Linda and her proposed formulation for an alternative description of light, which eventually leads to thinking about Feynman’s point particle formulation of quantum field theory, and what’s for dinner.

Dirac discovered the magnetic monopolesolutions, the first topological configuration in physics, and used them to give the modern explanation of charge quantization. He developed constrained quantization in the 1960s, identifying the general quantum rules for arbitrary classical systems.

Dirac’s quantum-field analysis of the vibrations of a membrane, in the early 1960s, proved extremely useful to modern practitioners of superstring theoryand its closely related successor, M-Theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Theory.[26]