4 Quotes & Sayings By Sheldon L Glashow

Sheldon L. Glashow is a theoretical physicist who has worked at the interface of particle physics and quantum field theory. He is known for his work on the unified weak and electromagnetic interactions, which led to the theory of electroweak interactions. Glashow was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1979 "for his contributions to the formulation of the unified theory of the interactions among subatomic particles and for his elucidation of the structure of the atomic nucleus." He is also known for his work on quark confinement, which led to his breakthrough discovery of color confinement in QCD.

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True, the Standard Model does explain a very great deal. Nevertheless it is not yet a proper theory, principally because it does not satisfy the physicists naive faith in elegance and simplicity. It involves some 17 allegedly fundamental particles and the same number of arbitrary and tunable parameters, such as the fine-structure constants, the muon-electron mass ratio and the various mysterious mixing angles. Sheldon L. Glashow
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Some astrophysicists have convinced themselves that the fifth significant figure of the fine structure constant has changed over the past ten billion years. Sheldon L. Glashow
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Tapestries are made by many artisans working together. The contributions of separate workers cannot be discerned in the completed work, and the loose and false threads have been covered over. So it is in our picture of particle physics. Sheldon L. Glashow