2008 ASTA Research Session: Keynote Speech Current Trends in String Research: An Agenda for the Future

Theory #1: The Ant Hill Theory Ina way, researchers are like ants. As researchers we all understand that one research study, even our own brilliant research, will not and cannot provide the sole answer to a question. Akin to the way ants work, adding one grain of sand at a time to create, after repeated times, an impressive ant hill, researchers add one piece of information to an ever forming way of looking at a problem. Eventually, like the ever-growing ant hill, researchers develop an impressive structure of information.