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Rational Reconstructions of Modern Physics

Part of the Fundamental Theories of Physics Book Series (volume 169)

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0077-2

ISBN: 978-94-007-0076-5

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Oct 9, 2010

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Rise and Fall of Physical Theories

Mittelstaedt, Peter

Pages: 1 –10

[Classical physics, which is assumed here as represented by classical mechanics, is usually considered as the correct physical theory of our ordinary everyday experience (OE). This experience refers to the dimensions and processes of the human life, to slow motions, to time intervals that are...
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Reconstruction of Special and General Relativity

Mittelstaedt, Peter

Pages: 11 –48

[The historical development of the Theory of Special Relativity offers a rather complicated and confusing impression. At the end of the nineteenth century we find several important philosophical investigations by Ernst Mach, Henri Poincaré about the underlying philosophical prejudices of Newton’s...
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Reconstruction of Quantum Mechanics

Mittelstaedt, Peter

Pages: 49 –77

[The historical development of quantum mechanics offers a rather heterogeneous picture, a large variety of interpretations, goals, and philosophical classifications. Quantum mechanics was understood as a theory in the spirit of positivism, operationalism, and empiricism, - to mention here only a...
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Three Constants of Nature

Mittelstaedt, Peter

Pages: 79 –101

[In accordance with the results of the preceding Chaps. 2 and 3, we assume that the two fundamental theories of modern physics, the Theory of Relativity (SR) and Quantum Mechanics (QM) can be obtained from the classical space–time theory and classical mechanics (CM) by abandoning or relaxing...
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Interpretations of Modern Physics

Mittelstaedt, Peter

Pages: 103 –112

[Since the advent of Modern Physics in 1905, when Einstein’s theory of Special Relativity appeared, we observe a rapidly increasing activity to “interpret” this new and for the present somewhat strange theory of Modern Physics. However, it should be emphasised, that Special Relativity was only...
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Concluding Remarks

Mittelstaedt, Peter

Pages: 113 –117

[In the beginning of the present treatise we discussed the observation, that many scientists consider Newton’s classical physics as understandable and intuitive, whereas Modern Physics of the 20th century is estimated as difficult to grasp and unintuitive. This assessment is shared by many...

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