Ability to Count to Two. Opening Talk at the Third International Sakharov Conference on Physics

摘要

Third International Sakharov Conference on Physics organized by theTheoretical Physics Department of the Lebedev Institute, Russian Academy ofSciences, covered wide scope of topics: astrophysics, fusion, high field, highpressure and high density research, superstrings and dualities, brane world andquantum gravity, quantum field theory and high energy physics. This shortOpening Word however exceeds the bounds of physics - it is about three"dynamical characteristics" of Sakharov's methodology and way of thinking:"Artseulov method", "a permanent feeling of possible personal error", andability "to count to two", which in present days is not less demanded thanbefore.