And about 10 years after the paper came out, a guy named Ed Witten in Princeton started applying it to string theory and people in Russia started applying it to what's called "condensed matter." Today, those things in there called Chern-Simons invariants have spread through a lot of physics.
Unos 10 años después de publicarse el artículo Ed Witten en Princeton lo comenzó a aplicar a la teoría de cuerdas y la gente en Rusia lo aplicó a lo llamado "materia condensada".