Why be natural?

DOI10.1007/S10701-019-00249-ZMaRDI QIDQ2286549zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jonathan Bain

Publication date 22 January 2020

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-019-00249-z

zbMATH Keywords

effective field theoriesemergencenaturalness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Effective quantum field theories (81T12)

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