Article ID: CBB000070839

Wrong theory--right experiment: The significance of the Stern-Gerlach experiments (1995)

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Description “Because of its status in the history of physics as a famous experiment, and its many uninvestigated ramifications, the Stern-Gerlach experiment [on the quantization of angular momentum] provides an excellent opportunity for the study of the relationship between theory and experiment. The results of the Stern-Gerlach experiments, and many others based on a Stern-Gerlach apparatus, were theory-guided, not theory-determined.”


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Authors & Contributors
Mainz, Vera V.
Johannes-Geert Hagmann
Jordi Taltavull, Marta
Zanghi, Nino
Whitaker, M. Andrew B.
Tumulka, Roderich
Concepts
Quantum mechanics
Explanation; hypotheses; theories
Physics
Theoretical physics
Philosophy of science
Quantum chemistry
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
20th century, early
Places
Germany
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