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Happiest Thoughts: Great Thought Experiments of Modern Physics

Peacock, Kent A. (2016) Happiest Thoughts: Great Thought Experiments of Modern Physics. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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This is a review of those key thought experiments in physics from the late 19th century onward that seem to have played a particular role in the process of the discovery or advancement of theory. Among others the paper discusses Maxwell's demon, several of Einstein's thought experiments in relativity, Heisenberg's microscope, the Einstein-Schrödinger cat, and the EPR (Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen) thought experiment.


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Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
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Peacock, Kent A.kent.peacock@uleth.ca
Keywords: thought experiments, Einstein, quantum mechanics, relativity, equivalence principle, hole argument, EPR, Bell's Theorem
Subjects: General Issues > Thought Experiments
Depositing User: Dr Kent A. Peacock
Date Deposited: 07 Aug 2016 19:26
Last Modified: 07 Aug 2016 19:26
Item ID: 12339
Subjects: General Issues > Thought Experiments
Date: 6 August 2016
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12339

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