Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic.

Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic.

I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.

It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.

I don't suppose I'll ever retire completely.

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.