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What Can Possibly Go Wrong?

Nuclear Theory 2022-05-18 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology History and Philosophy of Physics

Abstract

A lot. [In this hard, unbiased and objective look at some past and continuing blunders in following Weinberg's suggestions to arrive at a comprehensive description of Nuclear Physics using Effective Field Theories, some names and citations are withheld to protect the innocent.]

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@article{arxiv.2111.00930,
  title  = {What Can Possibly Go Wrong?},
  author = {Harald W. Griesshammer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.00930},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

20 pages LaTeX2e (pdflatex) including 4 figures as .pdf files using includegraphics and svjour3. Text-identical to publication in Few-Body Systems, Special Issue "Celebrating 30 years of the Steven Weinberg's paper Nuclear Forces from Chiral Lagrangians", but correcting journal's erroneous placing of motto

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