Talk:Sidney Coleman

message: Original article moved to Sidney_Coleman/Temp after copyright violation of  Tonderai 11:57, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)
:The bulk of Sidney Coleman’s research has been in high-energy theoretical physics, in particular quantum field theory. He has contributed to the theories of strong-interaction symmetries, of spontaneous symmetry breakdown, of duality in two-dimensional field theories, of solitons and instantons, of the cosmological constant, and of quantum effects in black-hole dynamics.
::rv to pre-vopyvio version.--Duk 03:29, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
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message: Unfortunately you should view the sad news about Sidney's death as a confirmed news with a source. See the main page of the Harvard physics department.  --Lumidek (talk) 15:31, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
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message: Coleman was also well-known in science fiction fandom (which was the context in which I knew him). I checked to see if this could be sourced, and indeed his articles are found in science fiction fanzines. See http://www.smithway.org/fstuff/zines.html for example. --Pleasantville (talk) 11:49, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
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message: Coleman's Erice lectures, written up over the years, were very influential on his generation of physicists. It seems to me that this work was indeed a "contribution to physics" in addition to his original research. In particular, I think TonyMath's addition of "Instantons (Aspects of Symmetry)" should stay in the article. betsythedevine (talk) 00:27, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: That sounds like a very good suggestion to me, and I've attempted to implement it in the article. If others feel I got this wrong, feel free to improve. betsythedevine (talk) 05:21, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
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message: * This note concerns the deleted text :
In 1998, Sidney Coleman and Sheldon Glashow published a paper Sidney Coleman and Sheldon Glashow, High-Energy Tests of Lorentz Invariance, arXiv:hep-ph/9812418 suggesting that Lorentz symmetry violation (LSV) could be at the origin of a suppression of the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin (GZK) cutoff. But the work by Luis Gonzalez-Mestres, that Coleman and Glashow do not cite, is clearly prior to their suggestion.
In his book The Trouble With Physics, Lee Smolin, a former doctoral student of Sidney Coleman at Harvard, wrongly attributes to Coleman and Glashow this original idea. Already in a 1996 paper Luis González-Mestres (June 1996), Superluminal Matter and High-Energy Cosmic Rays, http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9606054, Gonzalez-Mestres had also conjectured that superbradyon decay could provide a source of ultra-high energy cosmic rays.
 
In April 1997, postulating the existence of a vacuum rest frame and a quadratic momentum dependence for the effective LSV parameters, González-Mestres pointed out Luis González-Mestres (April 1997), Vacuum Structure, Lorentz Symmetry and Superluminal Particles, http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9704017 that Lorentz symmetry violation for "ordinary" particles can lead to a suppression of the GZK cutoff and that, under the same hypothesis, unstable particles can become stable at ultra-high energy. More generally, the stability and decays of ultra-high energy particles would depend on LSV parameters. These original ideas were also presented at the 1997 International Cosmic Ray Conference. Luis González-Mestres (May 1997), Absence of Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Cutoff and Stability of Unstable Particles at Very High Energy, as a Consequence of Lorentz Symmetry Violation, Proceedings of the 25th International Cosmic-Ray Conference, Durban, 30 July - 6 August (published before the conference), Volume 6, Potscheftroomse Universiteit, Copyright Space Research Unit 1997,  , page 113, paper posted in May 1997, http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9705031 , also available at http://ccdb4fs.kek.jp/cgi-bin/img/allpdf?199706012 (KISS, KEK, Japan)
(en of the text)
You can find more details in a former version of the biography of Luis Gonzalez-Mestres that one is trying to remove :
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luis_Gonz%C3%A1lez-Mestres&oldid=405694130
Including the explicit mentions by the New York Times and the CERN Courier. Then, a simple check of article dates shows that the papers by Gonzalez-Mestres were clearly prior to those of Coleman and Glashow.
Citizen Biographer (talk) 10:28, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: For nearly any physics result, there are pre-existing papers that said something similar somewhere. I doubt this dispute about who said what first in 1996 or 1998 is notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia. I don't see WP:RS calling this a controversy. If it were to be included, the place it should go is Luis Gonzalez-Mestres, not Sidney Coleman or Sheldon Glashow, since they were arguably unaware of the earlier paper when they wrote theirs. betsythedevine (talk) 11:19, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

text: Those "essential results" are so unimportant to Coleman, to Glashow, and indeed to physics that they are of absolutely zero interest to anybody reading this biography. Coleman and Glashow made other major contributions to physics. The "possible GZK suppression and stability of unstable particles at ultra-high energies" are not an important part of their physics biography. The talk page of the article is a place for discussing improvements to the article. It is not a  WP:FORUM. Good luck with your "investigation" and if some WP:RS reports on its results, then maybe it will be notable and reliable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia. betsythedevine (talk) 12:10, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
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