Effective Theories in Physics From Planetary Orbits to Elementary Pa
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
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Editorial Board Egor Babaev, University of Massachusetts, Massachusetts, USA Malcolm Bremer, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Xavier Calmet, University of Sussex, Sussex, UK Francesca Di Lodovico, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK Maarten Hoogerland, Universiy of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Eric Le Ru, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand James Overduin, Towson University, Towson, USA Vesselin Petkov, Concordia University, Concordia, Canada Charles H.-T. Wang, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK Andrew Whitaker, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK
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James D. Wells
Effective Theories in Physics From Planetary Orbits to Elementary Particle Masses
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James D. Wells PH-TH CERN Geneva 23 Switzerland
ISSN 2191-5423 ISBN 978-3-642-34891-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-34892-1
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Preface
Effective Theories have been with us since the dawn of science, but it has only been in recent decades that we have found it important enough to give it a clear and voiced n
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