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Welcome to the strange world of the quantum, where one cannot determine how a particle gets from here to there. Physicists are reduced to bookies, posting odds on the various possibilities.

Anthony Zee

In science, one tries to say what no one else has ever said before. In poetry, one tries to say what everyone else has already said, but better. This explains, in essence, why good poetry is as rare as good science.

Anthony Zee

Let there be an SU(5) Yang-Mills theory with all its gauge bosons, let the symmetry be broken down spontaneously, and let all but one of the remaining massless gauge bosons be sold into infrared slavery. That one last gauge boson is my favorite. Let him rush forth to illuminate all of my creations!

Anthony Zee

By the end of this book, you too will know how God weaves the universe out of a web of interlocking fields. I would like to change Dirac's statement "God is a mathematician" to "God is a quantum fiel theorist".

Anthony Zee

Anthony Zee

Anthony Zee

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Born: June 7, 1945 (age 80)

Bio: Anthony Zee is a Chinese-American physicist, writer, and currently a professor at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the physics department of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Known for:

Quantum field theory in a nutshell (2003)
Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell (2013)
Group Theory in a Nutshell for Physicists (2016)
Fearful symmetry (1986)
Swallowing Clouds (1990)

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