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Weinberg’s Proposal of 1990: A Very Personal View

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My personal encounter with Weinberg’s proposal of 1990 was a really entertaining one: My collaborator David Entem and I had embarked to show that Weinberg’s idea, though smart and beautiful, was essentially useless in practice (like so many of those genius ideas of the 1980s where people claimed to have “derived the nuclear force from QCD”). However, in trying to do so, we showed the opposite; namely, we showed that Weinberg’s idea worked better than allowed by any reasonable means.

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This work was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy under Grant No. DE-FG02-03ER41270.

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Machleidt, R. Weinberg’s Proposal of 1990: A Very Personal View. Few-Body Syst 62, 21 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00601-021-01606-3

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