A Specimen of Theory Construction from Quantum Gravity

Abstract

I describe the history of my attempts to arrive at a discrete substratum underlying the spacetime manifold, culminating in the hypothesis that the basic structure has the form of a partial-order (i.e. that it is a causal set).

16 pages, plainTeX. Figures not included but available on request from the Author. To be published in: "The Creation of Ideas in Physics", ed. Jarrett Leplin, (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1995)