<story><title>Physicists Uncover Geometric ‘Theory Space’</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/using-the-bootstrap-physicists-uncover-geometry-of-theory-space-20170223</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eigenschwarz</author><text>I work directly in this field. This article covers a lot of a material that is at the forefront of theoretical high energy physics where we are neck-deep in the &amp;#x27;fog of war.&amp;#x27; Truthfully, I can think of few subjects more difficult to describe to people not in the field than the conformal bootstrap; there are a lot of technical details that are easy to get hung up on but are crucial for understanding the big picture.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nabla9</author><text>Out of curiosity, was Robert B. Laughlins (Nobel price for  Laughlin wavefunction explaining the fractional quantum Hall effect) on right track and is his work any way relevant to what is currently happening?&lt;p&gt;The Theory of Everything, R. B. Laughlin and David Pines
&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.pnas.org&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;97&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;28.full&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.pnas.org&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;97&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;28.full&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down,  R. B. Laughlin
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Different-Universe-Reinventing-Physics-Bottom&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;0465038298&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Different-Universe-Reinventing-Physic...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;large.stanford.edu&amp;#x2F;publications&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;large.stanford.edu&amp;#x2F;publications&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Physicists Uncover Geometric ‘Theory Space’</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/using-the-bootstrap-physicists-uncover-geometry-of-theory-space-20170223</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eigenschwarz</author><text>I work directly in this field. This article covers a lot of a material that is at the forefront of theoretical high energy physics where we are neck-deep in the &amp;#x27;fog of war.&amp;#x27; Truthfully, I can think of few subjects more difficult to describe to people not in the field than the conformal bootstrap; there are a lot of technical details that are easy to get hung up on but are crucial for understanding the big picture.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slewis</author><text>Can you recommend some reading material, maybe a textbook, for folks who want to get into the details?</text></comment>