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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| 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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