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“All is fair in love and war” and, I might add, in theoretical physics. As in those activities painful adjustments are often necessary. Until a few years ago physics has been so definitely tied to Newtonian mechanics that, for many persons, progress in physics has come to mean understanding of phenomena within that frame. So much has been accomplished within that frame that it is naturally tempting to believe that mathematical physics should be thus restricted and that a phenomenon is not “explained” unless it is fully described in terms of classical mechanics.
From “The Philosophical Concepts in Modern Physics, ”four addresses delivered at a symposium held Thursday afternoon, December 9, 1937.
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Condon, E.U. (1991). Mathematical Models in Modern Physics. In: Barut, A.O., Odabasi, H., van der Merwe, A. (eds) Selected Popular Writings of E.U. Condon. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3066-3_16
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