By Edmund T. Whittaker
The aim of this quantity is to explain the revolution in physics which came about within the first sector of the 20 th century, and which incorporated the discoveries of designated Relativity, the older Quantum conception, basic Relativity, Matrix Mechanics and Wave Mechanics.
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As a consequence, there is no reason to believe that our present best theories will not have the same fate. The general conclusion is that empirical success does not guarantee truth. The pessimistic meta-induction can be easily transferred to the intertheoretic case: analogously to the historical answer in the original context, the history of science also shows how intertheoretic links, empirically successful at a certain time, were sometimes later replaced due to the modification of one of the poles of the relationship.
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