>was very insecure his whole time as a student
>made minor contributions to string theory until he secured a spot in Stephen Weinberg’s group at TTU
>had a portrait photograph of Ed Witten on the back of his office door
>discovers D-branes which debunk the string theory orthodoxy that membranes are irrelevant
>jumps on the multiverse bandwagon and shills “anthropic” reasoning
>gets a massive brain tumor
>recovers and writes his memoir
>cancer comes back and he dies
legend
>made minor contributions to string theory until he secured a spot in Stephen Weinberg’s group at TTU
>had a portrait photograph of Ed Witten on the back of his office door
>discovers D-branes which debunk the string theory orthodoxy that membranes are irrelevant
>jumps on the multiverse bandwagon and shills “anthropic” reasoning
>gets a massive brain tumor
>recovers and writes his memoir
>cancer comes back and he dies
legend
