The Breakdown of Effective Field Theory in Particle Physics: Lessons for Understanding Intertheoretic Relations.
Effective field theory (EFT) is a computationally powerful theoretical framework, finding application in many areas of physics. The framework, applied to the Standard Model of particle physics, is even more empirically successful than our theoretical understanding would lead us to expect. I argue th...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 92; no. 1; pp. 100 - 121 |
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