In the bright sunshine filtering through Caltech's blooming jacaranda trees, there is little to distinguish the plump, middle-aged physicist from the knot of faculty and students outside the university auditorium, save the tiny StarTac cellular phone clipped to his baggy black trousers, his laptop computer-the thinnest money can buy-and the attentive publicist who carries it for him.

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