"It then allowed theorists to do very detailed chemical calculations about what was happening in the collision".
This in turn gave renewed impetus to methodological individualism, because it allowed theorists to diagnose with unparalleled precision the errors that social theorists could be (and often were) led into if they ignored the action-theoretic level of analysis.
That lack of interaction vastly simplifies calculations and has allowed theorists to create Fermi-liquid models of complex materials, which lays the groundwork for building everything from better computer chips to metal insulators.
I could say that it won't work, that it will push hatreds underground, turn every bigot into a martyr and allow conspiracy theorists to flourish.
Nevertheless, building on that framework, and understanding, among other things, whether some nodes tend to have many more links than others, and whether "cycles" of linked nodes are common in a graph, can allow graph theorists to say powerful things about, say, a telephone network or the internet.
The resulting analytic clarity will allow property theorists to contribute more usefully to solving resource problems.
Moreover, games allow queer theorists to engage with the myriad ways in which subject positions are experienced and normative behaviors are codified.
"It turns out that extremal black holes have some extra symmetries that allow string theorists to perform detailed calculations with them... which are much harder to do otherwise," he said.
Rather than allow conspiracy theorists and panicked journalists (which I was guilty of being) to speculate that hundreds of thousands, millions, or everyone was under the watchful eye of the NSA big brother, it capped the number of people possibly monitored at 19,000 for Facebook and 32,000 for Microsoft.
