Il capitano generale lagrimo per allegrezza e nomino quel capo: Deseado,
perehe l'avevamo gia gran tempo desiderato. Antonio Pigafetta Il Primo
Viaggo in torno al Mondo I would like to take some poetic license in
introducing this volume in a way that seems appropriate for a country,
like Chile, that Iooks to the ocean. I believe it was Heisenberg who
compared different times in physics with sailing a ship. He said that
most of the time we keep our ships in port, or in the protection of a
bay. But on a few occasions we go into the open sea, and those occasions
are really the great times in theoretical physics, when everything can
change. It does not seem totally unwarranted to hope that we are now
entering one of those times. In that spirit, I would like to mention a
wonderful book, which in English would be called something like Chile,
Or a Crazy Geography.