Spacetime visualisation and the intelligibility of physical theories

DOI10.1016/S1355-2198(01)00007-7zbMATH Open1222.00025MaRDI QIDQ720467FDOQ720467

Henk W. de Regt

Publication date: 15 October 2011

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

spacetimeunderstandingvisualisationquantum theoryAnschaulichkeitintelligibility

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

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