Modern field theory implications

1:00:14good at theoretical physics." So, um, and he publishes these papers. So, Teller comes up to him and he's like, "So, I heard you're you're doing pretty bad in this lab." and he's like, "Yeah, man. I'm I'm really struggling." And but Teller says, "You know, I liked your paper >> that you put out. Um, you know, if you want to submit that as part of your thesis, I'll be your adviser." Because this was something that Teller hadn't even thought about, >> Edward Teller. >> But he's like, you know, this is interesting stuff. So if you want to if you want to, you know, graduate with a PhD under me, just like make it a little bit longer, [laughter] you know, it can't be like I can't submit like a three-page paper as your thesis, but you know, I could talk if you you're doing like a little bit

1:00:54longer. He he comes back with a little bit longer paper. Teller's like, "This isn't long enough." Like [laughter] I I was meaning like substantially longer. >> I was trying to be nice. >> Yeah. Like so so so Yang goes back comes back with a longer paper and Teller was like all right this is fine. Actually at a at a later celebration of Yang's birthday Teller went up to speak and he talked about how the third submission that Yang had of his paper was still too short. But he was just like this is hopeless. Like [laughter] this guy's clearly a very good physicist. Let's just let's just >> I'm just going to talk to his I'll I'll go to bat for him. You know, like [laughter] look, having Edward Teller go to bat for you is not >> not a bad thing.

1:01:35>> It's not bad at all. 1948, he gets his um >> his paper. Um one of the cool things about his time at his time at Chicago was he was actually in a twoperson class with um Sunung Da under the toutelage of Subramanium Chandra Shaker. Okay. Subramanium Chandra Shaker is one of my heroes personally. He's somebody that I um Subramanium Chundra Shaker is one of the heroes of Indian physics. He um discovered the Chundra Shaker limit which is the white dwarf limit. How big a star can get before it can no longer be a white dwarf. Um at the age of like 19 or 20 he discovered this. He faced

1:02:17intense racism in Great Britain um by someone by the name of Arthur Edington who himself great physicist or whatever but you know whatever gatekeeper we get it. >> Yeah we we get it. So he he was hired by the University of Chicago and at the time he was working at the Jüks Observatory in Wisconsin. Um he offered this course. I forget what the course was actually but only two people signed up. It was Sununga Lee and Yang Chen Lee Yang Chen Ning. Okay. Um he would drive 200 miles from York's Observatory to Chicago every week to um do this course and teach this course.

1:02:58But good thing for him because that course holds the world record for number