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Murray Gell-Mann (15 September 1929 – 24 May 2019) was an American theoretical physicist who played a preeminent role in the development of the theory of elementary particles, for which he received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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You don't need something more to get something more. That's what emergence means.
The false report that measuring one of the photons immediately affects the other leads to all sorts of unfortunate conclusions.
The Quark and the Jaguar (1994)
If I have seen further than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarfs.
Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree.
The most important prediction of a typical unified Yang–Mills theory is that of proton decay.
In our science, no amount of eloquence will save a wrong theory.
While many questions about quantum mechanics are still not fully resolved, there is no point in introducing needless mystification where in fact no problem exists. Yet a great deal of recent writing about quantum mechanics has done just that.
The Quark and the Jaguar (1994)
Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.
Niels Bohr brain-washed a whole generation of physicists into believing that the problem had been solved fifty years ago [Gell-Mann's comment on the Copenhagen interpretation]
A remarkable property of superstring theory is that its self-consistency seems to fix the number of spatial dimensions, and that number is not three. Instead, the theory appears to work only in nine spatial dimensions, giving a ten-dimensional space-time.
Possibly we will find an elegant model, in agreement with observation, that yields the pattern of lepton masses as well as the pattern of quark bare masses and even relates hadrons and leptons. This is our dream; touch us!
I thought of killing myself but soon decided that I could always try MIT and then kill myself later if it was that bad but that I couldn't commit suicide and then try MIT afterwards. The two operations, suicide and going to MIT, don't commute...
How can neutrinos be produced in the center of the sun and how can they be detected in laboratories here on earth if they are subject neither to the strong force nor to the electromagnetic one? Another force, the so-called weak force, is responsible. The electron neutrino does participate in that interaction, along with the electron.
The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex (1994)
A complex adaptive system acquires information about its environment and its own interaction with that environment, identifying regularities in that information, condensing those regularities into a kind of "schema", or model, and acting in the real world on the basis of that schema.
That which is not forbidden is mandatory.
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The Feynman [Problem-Solving] Algorithm:
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