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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... relations of the underlying entities . Moreover , this is the only part of the ontology that is accessible to scientific investigations through the causal chains that relate the structural assertions about the hypothetical entities to ...
... relations of the underlying entities . Moreover , this is the only part of the ontology that is accessible to scientific investigations through the causal chains that relate the structural assertions about the hypothetical entities to ...
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... relations in various experimental situations . The empirical and logical constraints are so tight that the acceptance of its existence becomes mandatory if we do not want to give up what we have achieved , since the scientific ...
... relations in various experimental situations . The empirical and logical constraints are so tight that the acceptance of its existence becomes mandatory if we do not want to give up what we have achieved , since the scientific ...
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... relations . On the surface , the uncertainty relations address the epistemo- logical question of measurement . However , for justifying or simply understanding experimentally well - established relations , an ontological presupposition ...
... relations . On the surface , the uncertainty relations address the epistemo- logical question of measurement . However , for justifying or simply understanding experimentally well - established relations , an ontological presupposition ...
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... relations , a local coupling means the coupling of infinitely fluctuating fields , which leads to ultraviolet diver- gences in QFT calculations . The occurrence of ultraviolet divergences was initially conceived to be an indication of ...
... relations , a local coupling means the coupling of infinitely fluctuating fields , which leads to ultraviolet diver- gences in QFT calculations . The occurrence of ultraviolet divergences was initially conceived to be an indication of ...
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... relations make it impossible to have a precise definition of a point - like space - time coincidence , which lies at the foundation of the usual concept of space - time points ( or locality ) . This challenge , however , is partially ...
... relations make it impossible to have a precise definition of a point - like space - time coincidence , which lies at the foundation of the usual concept of space - time points ( or locality ) . This challenge , however , is partially ...
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The Structural Foundations of Quantum Gravity Dean Rickles,Steven French,Juha T. Saatsi No preview available - 2006 |