Theory Construction and Selection in Modern Physics - The S Matrix

Klappentext Analyses what criteria should determine how scientific theories are selected and justified. Zusammenfassung One of the major philosophical problems in physical sciences is what criteria should determine how scientific theories are selected and justified in practice and whether! in describing observable physical phenomena! such theories are effectively constrained to be unique. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction and background; 2. Origin of the S-matrix: Heisenberg's program and a background to dispersion theory; 3. Dispersion relations; 4. Another route to a theory based on analytic reaction amplitudes; 5. The analytic S-matrix; 6. The bootstrap and Regge poles; 7. An autonomous S-matrix program; 8. The duality program; 9. 'Data' for a methodological study; 10. Methodological lessons; Appendix; Notes; References; Glossary of technical terms (from physics and from philosophy); Some key figures and their positions; Index.

Product details

• Authors: James T. Cushing, James T. (University of Notre Dame Cushing
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.09.1990
• EAN: 9780521381819
• ISBN: 978-0-521-38181-9
• No. of pages: 428
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics