Talk:Regge theory

Much More is Needed

There is so much to do here. I tried to give a historical sketch, but I am relying on Gribov's account almost exclusively. There are many nonrelativistic examples, there is BFKL and all the perturbative work, and then there's the recent AdS/QCD stuff. There are also the main historical question: why was this theory marginalized for so long? Hopefully someone who lived through the era can say something.Likebox (talk) 22:53, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Why was it marginalized? Dunno. In grad school, in the early 1980's, I had several lectures on it. Something about it was unexciting... I attempted to understand the bare minimum to pass the class, but trying to figure out what a Lie group was, what SU(3) was, seemed to be much more exciting and important. By contrast, poles, analytic continuation, s,t,u just seemed boring, although "edge of the wedge" drove home the point that I should have not sleep-walked through the lectures. Ooops. Too late. Anyway, the experimentalists did not ask me out on dates. This is just an anecdote about human nature, but maybe everyone felt similarly? 67.198.37.16 (talk) 19:43, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

What is a "Reggeon"?

The term redirects here but is not mentioned or defined. Equinox (talk) 13:51, 15 January 2016 (UTC)