Jun 22, 2018
by the end of the 19th century, Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetism had been thoroughly studied and was thought to be understood mathematically. But it was later found to contain hidden symmetries: Lorentz invariance and gauge invariance—now seen as the keys to the secrets of the universe.
Tony Zee, Quantum field theory in a nutshell
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