WHAT DID CHARLES SAUNDERS PIERCE KNOW,
AND HOW DID HE KNOW IT?
From “The Architecture of Theories,” published in The Monist in January 1891.
“There is room for serious doubt whether the fundamental laws of mechanics hold good for single atoms, and it seems quite likely that they are capable of motion in more than three dimensions.”
No, that’s not a misprint. 1891.
How long did you say they’d been doing superstring theory?