Point-particle explanations: the case of gravitational waves.

This paper explores the role of physically impossible idealizations in model-based explanation. We do this by examining the explanation of gravitational waves from distant stellar objects using models that contain point-particle idealizations. Like infinite idealizations in thermodynamics, biology a...

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Published in:	Synthese Vol. 196; no. 5; pp. 1809 - 1830
Main Author:	Wayne, Andrew
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature May2019
Subjects:	Gravitational waves Physics Relativity (Physics) Thermodynamics Biology
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost