Sidney Coleman
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Sidney Coleman (1937-03-07 – 2007-11-18) 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.
- Said during one of his lectures at Harvard University [1].
- 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).