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Simple psammoids

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How to catch essentials of granular soils in a simple way? Allegedly Einstein said ‘theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler’, so what is adequately simple? One can read in the Internet that Einstein’s philosophy of science was more subtle. He wrote ‘Our experience hitherto justifies us in trusting that nature is the realization of the simplest that is mathematically conceivable’, and ‘But what remains unsatisfactory in this is always the arbitrariness in the choice of those elements that one designates as a priori’ (translated by Howard 2004).

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Gudehus, G. (2011). Simple psammoids. In: Physical Soil Mechanics. Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36354-5_2

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