The history of the dark matter problem can be traced back to at least the 1930s, but it was not until the early 1970s that the issue of 'missing matter'was widely recognized as problematic …
HFM Goenner - Living reviews in relativity, 2014 - Springer
The present review intends to provide an overall picture of the research concerning classical unified field theory, worldwide, in the decades between the mid-1930 and mid-1960. Main …
D Lehmkuhl - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B …, 2014 - Elsevier
I argue that, contrary to folklore, Einstein never really cared for geometrizing the gravitational or (subsequently) the electromagnetic field; indeed, he thought that the very statement that …
The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 at CERN completed the experimental confirmation of the Standard Model particle spectrum. Current theoretical insights and experimental data …
A Plotnitsky - Switzerland: Springer, 2016 - Springer
2 2††–, where Wμ α and Bμ are the gauge bosons of the SU (2) and U (1) symmetries, and g and g′ their respective coupling constant, tsaa=/2 (where σα are the Pauli matrices) a …
A Blum, R Lalli, J Renn - Isis, 2015 - journals.uchicago.edu
The history of the theory of general relativity presents unique features. After its discovery, the theory was immediately confirmed and rapidly changed established notions of space and …
In A History of Science in Society, Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to …
This essay aims to shed some light on the still common sense of a vocation among scientists. Taking its cue from Paul Forman's analysis of twentieth-century disciplinary …
Abstract 'Holographic'relations between theories have become an important theme in quantum gravity research. These relations entail that a theory without gravity is equivalent to …