Elementarity and Anti-Matter in Contemporary Physics: Comments on Michael D. Resnik's "Between Mathematics and Physics"
PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990:379 - 383 (1990)
| Abstract | I point out that conceptions of particles as mathematical, or quasi mathematical, entities have a longer history than Resnik notices. I argue that Resnik's attack on the distinction between mathematical and physical entities is not deep enough. The crucial problem for this distinction finds its locus in the numerical indeterminancy of elementary particles. This problem, traced by Heisenberg, emerges from the discovery of antimatter. | |||||||||
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