Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Field TheoryTian Yu Cao Quantum field theory is a powerful language for the description of the subatomic constituents of the physical world and the laws and principles that govern them. This book contains up-to-date in-depth analyses, by a group of eminent physicists and philosophers of science, of our present understanding of its conceptual foundations, of the reasons why this understanding has to be revised so that the theory can go further, and of possible directions in which revisions may be promising and productive. These analyses will be of interest to graduate students and research workers in physics who want to know about the foundational problems of their subject. The book will also be of interest to professional philosophers, historians and sociologists of science, because it contains much material for metaphysical and methodological reflections, for historical and cultural analyses, and for sociological analyses of the way in which various factors contribute to the way the foundations are revised. |
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... existence and consistency of the symbolic system adopted by QFT . Thus plausible arguments adopted by practising physicists are far from satisfactory and convincing , and a large part of the conceptual development of QFT , seen from ...
... existence and consistency of the symbolic system adopted by QFT . Thus plausible arguments adopted by practising physicists are far from satisfactory and convincing , and a large part of the conceptual development of QFT , seen from ...
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... existence is not dependent upon anything external , although its existence may be interconnected with other primary entities . As a repre- sentation of the deep reality , the basic ontology of a theory enjoys great explanatory power ...
... existence is not dependent upon anything external , although its existence may be interconnected with other primary entities . As a repre- sentation of the deep reality , the basic ontology of a theory enjoys great explanatory power ...
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... existence . However , in the discus- sion of the ontology of STR - based QFT , this argument itself does not give sufficient grounds to reject the autonomous existence of space - time points , which are pre- supposed by STR as an ...
... existence . However , in the discus- sion of the ontology of STR - based QFT , this argument itself does not give sufficient grounds to reject the autonomous existence of space - time points , which are pre- supposed by STR as an ...
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... existence becomes mandatory if we do not want to give up what we have achieved , since the scientific revolution in the 16th and 17th centuries , in scientific reasoning and hypothetico - deductive methodology in general . But its claim ...
... existence becomes mandatory if we do not want to give up what we have achieved , since the scientific revolution in the 16th and 17th centuries , in scientific reasoning and hypothetico - deductive methodology in general . But its claim ...
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... existence of its classical limit , which may or may not exist at a certain level , although ultimately , at the macro- scopic level , it should have classical manifestations . The first attempt to formulate a relativistic quantum ...
... existence of its classical limit , which may or may not exist at a certain level , although ultimately , at the macro- scopic level , it should have classical manifestations . The first attempt to formulate a relativistic quantum ...
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The Structural Foundations of Quantum Gravity Dean Rickles,Steven French,Juha T. Saatsi No preview available - 2006 |