Sidney Coleman

Sidney Coleman

Sidney Coleman (7 March 193718 November 2007) was an eminent theoretical physicist who studied under Murray Gell-Mann.

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  • Not only God knows, I know, and by the end of the semester, you will know.
  • People get a lot of confusion, because they keep trying to think of quantum mechanics as classical mechanics
    • Quantum Mechanics in Your Face, a lecture given by Sidney Coleman at the New England sectional meeting of the American Physical Society (Apr. 9, 1994)
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  • The gauge fields have eaten the Goldstone bosons and grown heavy.
    • Talking about the spontaneously breaking mechanism in gauge theories (Higgs phenomenon).
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