Realism, underdetermination and string theory dualities.
String theory promises to be able to provide us with a working theory of quantum gravity and a unified description of all fundamental forces. In string theory there are so called 'dualities'; i.e. different theoretical formulations that are physically equivalent. In this article these dualities are...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 190; no. 3; pp. 471 - 490 |
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