2. Robert Laughlin is a little biased toward my own field of
condensed matter physics. I think he is trying to recruit bright young theorists into specializing in this area rather than in string theory or cosmology, but there is no reason we can't study both the smallest length scales and emergent properties at larger ones (like the explaining the fractional quantum Hall effect for which Laughlin won the Nobel prize)
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