A Middle Way: A Non-Fundamental Approach to Many-Body Physics

by Robert Batterman and Robert W. Batterman

Robert W. Batterman's monograph examines a ubiquitous methodology in physics and the science of materials that has virtually been ignored in the philosophical literature. This method focuses on mesoscale structures as a means for investigating complex many-body systems. It challenges foundational pictures of physics where the most important properties are taken to be found at lower, more fundamental scales.

This so-called "hydrodynamic approach"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197568610
• ISBN13: 9780197568613
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.5"