Article ID: CBB000070638

The resolution of discordant results (1995)

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Description “In this paper I will examine four episodes from the history of recent physics: (1) the suggestion of a Fifth Force, a modification of Newton's law of gravitation; (2) early attempts to detect gravitational radiation (gravity waves); (3) the claim that a 17-keV neutrino exists; and (4) experiments on atomic-parity violation and on the scattering of polarized electrons and their relation to the Weinberg-Salam unified theory of electroweak interactions. In each of these episodes discordant results were reported, and a consensus was later reached that one result--or set of results--was incorrect. I will examine the process of reaching that consensus.”


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Authors & Contributors
Carnap, Rudolf
Damböck, Christian
Beattie, James
Behrends, Elke
Cain, Victoria
Cooper, Jill E.
Journals
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
Genèses: Sciences Sociales et Histoire
Historia Mathematica
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Publishers
Felix Meiner Verlag
University of California Press
Exploratorium
Manchester University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
The MIT Press
Concepts
Science and politics
Philosophy of science
Biology
Logic
International relations
Technology and art
People
Carnap, Rudolf
Bichat, Marie François Xavier
Einstein, Albert
McClelland, David Clarence
Bernd Becher
Stevens, G.R. (1892-1975)
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
18th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Germany
Brazil
Mexico
Australia
Canada
Institutions
Vienna Circle
Canadian National Railways
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