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Prediction and theory evaluation: Subatomic particles (1993)

Brush, Stephen G. (Author)

Rivista di Storia della Scienza
Volume: n.s. 1 no.2
Pages: 47-152

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Description “It is often assumed that successful prediction of a new phenomenon encourages the acceptance of the theory that led to the prediction, but few historians have systematically collected evidence to test that assumption. This paper surveys the response of physicists to three theories that predicted previously-unknown particles: Dirac's relativistic quantum theory of the electron ... Yukawa's theory of nuclear forces ... and Gell-Mann's SU(3) symmetry-group theory ... The balance between this empirical evidence and other arguments used to evaluate the theories is discussed.” From the abstract.

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