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Peer reviewedAdams, Stephen – School Science Review, 1991
Explored is the role of thought experiments in the development of physical theories. Drawing examples from quantum theory it asks how a method that generates no new empirical data can nonetheless exert an influence upon a subject defined by its empiricism. (Author/KR)
Descriptors: Models, Physics, Problem Solving, Quantum Mechanics
