Pauli''s Exclusion Principle - The Origin and Validation of a Scientific Principle

Zusatztext Review of the hardback: 'It is precisely the integration between historical description and philosophical analysis which makes the book so appealing and relevant to current science studies. ? a book such as Massimi's clearly demonstrates that in some cases an integrated historico-philosophical approach is not only possible but also eminently fruitful.' Helge Kragh! British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Klappentext This book develops a philosophical framework for understanding a scientific principle's validation, for philosophers, historians and physicists. Zusammenfassung There is hardly another principle in physics with more far-reaching consequences than Pauli's exclusion principle. This book explores the principle's origin! its embedding into quantum mechanics! and later experimental validation and analyses the principle's emergence and validation from historical and philosophical viewpoints. The book will interest philosophers! historians and physicists. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The exclusion principle: a philosophical overview; 2. The origins of the exclusion principle: an extremely natural prescriptive rule; 3. From the old quantum theory to the new quantum theory: reconsidering Kuhn's incommensurability; 4. How Pauli's rule became the exclusion principle: from the Fermi-Dirac statistics to the spin-statistics theorem; 5. The exclusion principle opens up new avenues: from the eightfold way to quantum chromodynamics.

Product details

• Authors: Michela Massimi, Michela (University of Cambridge) Massimi, Massimi Michela
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.10.2012
• EAN: 9781107410732
• ISBN: 978-1-107-41073-2
• No. of pages: 226
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics; SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Physical & Theoretical, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, History of Science, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory), Quantum & theoretical chemistry, Quantum and theoretical chemistry