I'm Stan Brodsky and and I've very been
very fortunate to be here at slack since
1966 and had a you know wonderful career
of work here in theoretical physics
developing lots of things I don't just
sit at paper and pencil I really think
through the equations as I work as I
think about it and think about the
consistency and as am i walking along I
remember the equation I think of what it
means and what it's what's the
implications are so as you do that and
you think more and more about the
physics underlying the equations it
becomes very real one of my philosophies
is not to believe what everybody thinks
is gospel it's not good idea because we
don't progress so you should always
challenge existing wisdom and I do that
a lot actually and sometimes it makes
doesn't make friends because people
don't like to think that their own idea
could be wrong but actually sometimes it
happens I often quote this this
quotation from Mark Twain where he said
that truth is stranger than fiction
because in fiction you know the
possibilities and that is really right
because we as we learn more and more
about how the world works physics works
we find that there's more surprises that
nobody really anticipated