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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... structure that can be built from these constituents , it has also profoundly influenced the development of contempor- ary cosmology and deeply penetrated into the current conception and imagination of the origin and evolution of the ...
... structure that can be built from these constituents , it has also profoundly influenced the development of contempor- ary cosmology and deeply penetrated into the current conception and imagination of the origin and evolution of the ...
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... structure , and its power to provide a unified description of various observed or observable phenomena and make empirical predictions are far more important than the formal concern with existence and consistency , which they see as ...
... structure , and its power to provide a unified description of various observed or observable phenomena and make empirical predictions are far more important than the formal concern with existence and consistency , which they see as ...
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... structure , which is divided in broad terms into two parts : a representative part and a conventional part . The ... structure come from another assumption of the realists about the causal - hierarchical structure of the physical world ...
... structure , which is divided in broad terms into two parts : a representative part and a conventional part . The ... structure come from another assumption of the realists about the causal - hierarchical structure of the physical world ...
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... structure of concepts in their discipline , which represents the causal structure of the domain under investiga- tion . What it means is only that their intuition at the heuristic level , which usually takes the accepted understanding ...
... structure of concepts in their discipline , which represents the causal structure of the domain under investiga- tion . What it means is only that their intuition at the heuristic level , which usually takes the accepted understanding ...
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... structure of QFT have been addressed by authors in this volume , and I will turn to some of them shortly . Here I only want to stress that in any discussion of the basic ontology of QFT , the distinctive theoretical context has to be ...
... structure of QFT have been addressed by authors in this volume , and I will turn to some of them shortly . Here I only want to stress that in any discussion of the basic ontology of QFT , the distinctive theoretical context has to be ...
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The Structural Foundations of Quantum Gravity Dean Rickles,Steven French,Juha T. Saatsi No preview available - 2006 |