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dc.contributor.authorWells, James D.
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-20T19:30:45Z
dc.date.available2022-06-20T19:30:45Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifierONIX_20220620_9783642348921_7
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56973
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSpringerBriefs in Physics
dc.subject.otherEffectiv field theory
dc.subject.otherEffective action
dc.subject.otherEffective theories
dc.subject.otherNaturalness and fine-tuning in theoretical physics
dc.subject.otherPhenomenology
dc.subject.otherRenormalization group
dc.subject.otherSymmetries in Physics
dc.titleEffective Theories in Physics
dc.title.alternativeFrom Planetary Orbits to Elementary Particle Masses
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-642-34892-1
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5
oapen.relation.isFundedByc2fbf30c-ef0f-473b-8ee4-03e135ae04d0*
oapen.relation.isbn9783642348921
oapen.collectionSCOAP3 for Books
oapen.imprintSpringer
oapen.pages73
oapen.place.publicationBerlin, Heidelberg


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