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- Title
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- Authors
Buchanan, Mark
- Abstract
In this article, the author focuses on issues related to scientific theories, as of May 2014. Topics include suggestions by the physicist Michael Berry and the philosopher Robert Batterman on different nature of asymptotic limits of scientific theories, introduction of the concepts of phase space, phase transitions and thermodynamic surfaces by the researcher J. Willard Gibbs and the work of Thomas Kuhn, a science philosopher, on incommensuracy of scientific theories.
- Subjects
ACADEMIC dissertations; BERRY, Michael; BATTERMAN, Robert; PHASE space; PHASE transitions; GIBBS, J. Willard (Josiah Willard), 1839-1903; KUHN, Thomas S., 1922-1996; COMMENSURATE-incommensurate transitions
- Publication
Nature Physics, 2014, Vol 10, Issue 5, p331
- ISSN
1745-2473
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nphys2963