Rational Reconstructions of Modern Physics

• Main Author: Mittelstaedt, Peter. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2013.
• Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics ; 174
• Subjects: Physics.; Science > Philosophy.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Philosophy of Science.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5593-2

Newtons classical physics and its underlying ontology are loaded with several metaphysical hypotheses that cannot be justified by rational reasoning nor by experimental evidence. Furthermore, it is well known that some of these hypotheses are not contained in the great theories of Modern Physics, s...

Table of Contents:

• Rise and Fall of Physical Theories
• The Evolution of Modern Physics from the Classical World
• Intuitiveness and Truth of Modern Physics
• The New Approach: Reduction and Elimination of Metaphysical Hypotheses
• Reconstruction of Special and General Relativity
• Historical Development Versus Rational Reconstruction
• Reconstruction of Special Relativity
• Reconstruction of Quantum Mechanics
• The Historical Development of Quantum Mechanics
• The Reduction of Ontological Hypotheses
• The Formal Languages of Classical Physics and of Quantum Physics
• Three Constants of Nature
• The Problem of Constants of Nature in Modern Physics
• The Meaning of the Constant c in Special Relativity
• Preliminary Remarks.-� Metaphysics and Ontology
• Reconstruction of Special Relativity.-� The Meaning of the Constant o
• One More Fundamental Question
• Plancks Constant  in the Light of Quantum Logic
• Interpretations of Modern Physics
• Introductory Remarks
• The Interpretations of Special Relativity
• Concluding Remarks
• Intuitiveness and Truth in Physical Theories.