April 18, 2003

Mathematical Formalism, Critical Thought, 'Truth,' Alienation, Paradigms, and a Metaphor

Fulvio Melia,professor of physics and astronomy and associate head of the physics department at the University of Arizona, and author of

The Black Hole at the Center of our Galaxy (Princeton University Press, 2003):

As undergraduates at the University of Melbourne, which follows the British tradition in higher education, we learned early that mathematical formalism is elegant and concise, and ultimately constitutes the best description of a physical theory. But we also

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