list physicists who started out their careers very hot but ended up being weird
i’ll start
>Holger Bech Nielsen
>did great work on collider physics in the 60s-70s
>co-discovered string theory in the late 60s
>made important contributions to string theory and the standard model for the next decade or so
>becomes popsci icon in Denmark somewhere in the 90s-2000s
>in 2009, gets in the mainstream news with his theory that “the LHC is not going to work because if it creates a Higgs boson, then the Higgs boson will travel back in time to sabotage the LHC. God is sabotaging the LHC!
>literally he said this
>he still is winning awards and appearing in popsci
i’ll start
>Holger Bech Nielsen
>did great work on collider physics in the 60s-70s
>co-discovered string theory in the late 60s
>made important contributions to string theory and the standard model for the next decade or so
>becomes popsci icon in Denmark somewhere in the 90s-2000s
>in 2009, gets in the mainstream news with his theory that “the LHC is not going to work because if it creates a Higgs boson, then the Higgs boson will travel back in time to sabotage the LHC. God is sabotaging the LHC!
>literally he said this
>he still is winning awards and appearing in popsci
