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Author Powers, Jonathan H

Title Philosophy and the New Physics
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (232 p.)
Series Routledge Revivals Series
Routledge Revivals Series
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Note to the Second Printing -- Introduction -- 1 Physics, Metaphysics and Mathematics -- The Paradoxes of Common Sense -- The Wages of Positivism -- The Language of Physics -- 2 The Classical Framework -- The Sensorium of God -- Mass, Matter and Materialism -- Forces and Fields -- Aether and Reality -- 3 The Meaning of Relativity -- The Relativity of Time -- The Myth of the Michelson-Morley Experiment
The Absolute World -- The Arrow of Time -- Matter and Geometry -- 4 The New World of Quantum Physics -- Discontinuity Enters Physics -- Wave-Particle Duality -- Indeterminacy -- Nature's Ultimate Building Blocks -- 5 Physics, Ideology and Absolute Truth -- Notes -- Bibliographical Essay -- Appendix: Non-locality and the Aspect Experiment -- Name Index -- Subject Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000964080
1000964086