Talk:David J. Thouless

Bethe being Ph.D advisor
This says "He was a Ph.D. student of Hans Bethe". Is that working sufficient to support the claim that Bethe was his doctoral advisor? -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 00:13, 7 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Also this Seattle Times story and Thouless himself say his Ph.D was "under Hans Bethe". But I don't know if that working means that Bethe was head of the research group he was in, or if it actually means Bethe was his advisor. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 00:22, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

Citizenship
What documentary evidence is there for Thouless being an American citizen? 109.154.58.234 (talk) 18:18, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

only for kids
You can imagine quantum field theory as a Connect Four board game, but its checkers aren't discs but instead rods. There is no grid, the rods form the grid, but always many of them aren't locked well among each other, and the scaffolding they create changes shape continuously to achieve better stability, but that fundamentally cannot happen, because always some rod doesn't have the exact length (non invariant interactions destroy the aligned topological modularity, and the system shifts towards a less unstable position). During that process some rods break, and the fragments grow to a normal rod size, so the Universe expands. These rods, create houses, towns, planets, planetary systems, galaxies, galactic clusters etc. (this is a metaphor, I speak about field organization: the strong interaction, the weak interaction, the electromagnetic interaction, the QFD accumulative phenomenon of a. gravity, b. dark matter, and also the universal quantum decoherence we call dark energy) thus the rods, organize themselves in a different way at each critical scale. The afar expansion of our Universe, will not allow these rules be maintained, because not enough rods will exist at each critical scale of organization, thus the very scarce diffused rods who will remain, will explode as Big Bang to maintain alive the whole picture of the QFT flowing topological harmony.
 * The "ultimate universal phase transition" = "Big Bang" theory. Sounds great but we need more types. No homogeneity problem, this is a scalar - adiabatic phase transition.

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