TY  - JOUR
PB  - SciPost Foundation
DO  - 10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.14.006
TI  - On the unexpected fate of scientific ideas: An archeology of the Carroll group
PY  - 2023/11/23
UR  - https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysProc.14.006
JF  - SciPost Physics Proceedings
JA  - SciPost Phys. Proc.
VL  - 
IS  - 14
SP  - 006
A1  - Lévy-Leblond, Jean-Marc
AB  - In 1965, I published a paper, exhibiting a hitherto unknown limit of the Lorentz group, which I christened "Carroll group" due to its seemingly paradoxical physical contents. Since I saw it as more curious than relevant, I published it in French in a journal somewhat afar from the mainstream of theoretical physics at that time. It was most gratifying to witness the quite unexpected favour this paper started to enjoy half a century later, so much that a so-called "Carrollian physics" is now developing, with applications in various domains of forefront theoretical physics, such as quantum gravitation, supersymmetry, string theory, etc. I offer this narrative as an example of the very diverse time scales with which scientific ideas may develop — or not.
ER  -

@Article{10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.14.006,
	title={{On the unexpected fate of scientific ideas: An archeology of the Carroll group}},
	author={Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond},
	journal={SciPost Phys. Proc.},
	pages={006},
	year={2023},
	publisher={SciPost},
	doi={10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.14.006},
	url={https://scipost.org/10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.14.006},
}