"People get a lot of confusion, because they keep trying to think of quantum mechanics as classical mechanics"
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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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Sidney Coleman
Sidney Coleman (7 March 1937 β 18 November 2007) was an eminent theoretical physicist who studied under Murray Gell-Mann.
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