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oapen-20.500.12657-569732022-08-04T10:25:41Z Effective Theories in Physics Wells, James D. Effectiv field theory Effective action Effective theories Naturalness and fine-tuning in theoretical physics Phenomenology Renormalization group Symmetries in Physics bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PH Physics::PHU Mathematical physics bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDA Philosophy of science This open access book… There is significant interest in the Philosophy of Science community to understand the role that "effective theories" have in the work of forefront science. The ideas of effective theories have been implicit in science for a long time, but have only been articulated well in the last few decades. Since Wilson's renormalization group revolution in the early 1970's, the science community has come to more fully understand its power, and by the mid-1990's it had gained its apotheosis. It is still one of the most powerful concepts in science, which has direct impact in how one thinks about and formulates theories of nature. It is this power that this Brief sets out to emphasize through historical analysis and current examples. This is an open access book. 2022-06-20T19:30:45Z 2022-06-20T19:30:45Z 2012 book ONIX_20220620_9783642348921_7 9783642348921 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56973 eng SpringerBriefs in Physics application/pdf n/a 978-3-642-34892-1.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-642-34892-1 Springer Nature Springer 10.1007/978-3-642-34892-1 10.1007/978-3-642-34892-1 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 SCOAP3 9783642348921 SCOAP3 for Books Springer 73 Berlin, Heidelberg open access
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This open access book… There is significant interest in the Philosophy of Science community to understand the role that "effective theories" have in the work of forefront science. The ideas of effective theories have been implicit in science for a long time, but have only been articulated well in the last few decades. Since Wilson's renormalization group revolution in the early 1970's, the science community has come to more fully understand its power, and by the mid-1990's it had gained its apotheosis. It is still one of the most powerful concepts in science, which has direct impact in how one thinks about and formulates theories of nature. It is this power that this Brief sets out to emphasize through historical analysis and current examples. This is an open access book.
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