Cool, I didn't know the literature references. However what I was asking was whether the specific phrase "the bootstrap method" was used for this thing in theor

Cool, I didn't know the literature references. However what I was asking was whether the specific phrase "the bootstrap method" was used for this thing in theoretical physics. I only know the statistical concept, which _is_ called "the bootstrap method"; this physics thing sounds to me more like a "theory" or "model" than a "method" and I wondered if perhaps the journalist had got "the bootstrap method" from google hits (which are overwhelmingly dominated by the statistical concept) and thus muddied the waters slightly. A fairly unimportant question, to be sure.