Hon, Giora (Author)
Goldstein, Bernard R. (Author)
Kairos. Revista de Filosofia
Issue: 13
Pages: 213-236
Given the belief in the universality of Newtonian mechanics, it is hardly surprising that atomic structure was compared to that of a planetary system, taken as a model for it. However, Heisenberg eliminated all pictures and models from his new theory. While Sommerfeld, the theoretical physicist, stressed the didactic importance of the defunct theory, Reichenbach, the philosopher of science, argued that a researcher cannot do without visualization, although this visualization is the “outer clothing” of the theory and does not represent its conceptual “skeleton”. The problem underlying Reichenbach’s statement may stem from what Born considered the naive assumption that the laws governing the macrocosm and the microcosm are the same. But even Born continued to present the defunct theory as a preliminary step for understanding quantum mechanics, not as a theory of historical interest. The force of the model and its accompanied imagery were apparently too strong to resist.
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