Particle Metaphysics A Critical Account of Subatomic Reality /

• Main Author: Falkenburg, Brigitte (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: The Frontiers Collection,
• Subjects: Physics.; Philosophy.; Quantum physics.; Nuclear physics.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.; Philosophy, general.; Quantum Physics.

The empirical successes of atomic, nuclear, and particle physics have not reduced -- and may never fully resolve -- the philosophical controversies about the inner constitution of matter. This book examines these debates by exploring the particle concept in physics. Are the particles of modern physi...

Table of Contents:

• Scientific Realism
• Extending Physical Reality
• Particle Observation and Measurement
• Probing Subatomic Structure
• Measurement and the Unity of Physics
• Metamorphoses of the Particle Concept
• Wave-Particle Duality
• Subatomic Reality.