How experiments end /
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| Author / Creator: | Galison, Peter, 1955- |
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| Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1987. |
| Description: | xii, 330 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| Local Note: | University of Chicago Library's copy 5 is a paperback. |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/868869 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Strategies of Demonstration
- 1.2. Errors and Endings
- 1.3. Presuppositions and the Scope of Experimental Autonomy
- 1.4. Overview
- 2. From Aggregates to Atoms
- 2.1. History versus Statistics
- 2.2. The Apparatus of Averages
- 2.3. Molecular Magnets
- 2.4. The Electron
- 2.5. Einstein's Experiment
- 2.6. Einstein's Presuppositions
- 2.7. The Forgotten Influence of Terrestrial Magnetism
- 2.8. Expectations Defied
- 2.9. Ducks, Rabbits, and Errors
- 2.10. The Scylla and Charybdis of Ending an Experiment
- 3. Particles and Theories
- 3.1. Particles One by One
- 3.2. Millikan's Cosmic Rays
- 3.3. Beliefs behind the "Birth Cry of Atoms"
- 3.4. Contesting Instruments and Theories
- 3.5. Testing Quantum Mechanics
- 3.6. Quantum Theory Fails
- 3.7. A New Kind of Radiation
- 3.8. Regrouping the Phenomena
- 3.9. Two Cases for a New Particle
- 3.10. Corroboration by Theory, Corroboration by Experiment
- 3.11. Persuasive Evidence and the End of Experiments
- 4. Ending a High-Energy Physics Experiment
- 4.1. The Scale of High-Energy Physics
- 4.2. The Collective Wisdom: No Neutral Currents
- 4.3. Symmetries and Infinities
- 4.4. Priorities
- 4.5. Good Reasons for Disbelief
- 4.6. The Role of Theorists
- 4.7. Background and Signal
- 4.8. Do Neutral Currents "Really Exist"?
- 4.9. A Picture Book Event
- 4.10. The Expanding Circle of Belief
- 4.11. Models, Background, and Commitment
- 4.12. Experiment 1A: Parts and Participants
- 4.13. Short Circuits and High Theory
- 4.14. First Data
- 4.15. "Shadow of a Suspicion"
- 4.16. Dismantling an Ending
- 4.17. "I Don't See How to Make These Effects Go Away"
- 5. Theoretical and Experimental Cultures
- 5.1. Levels of Theoretical Commitment
- 5.2. Long-Term Constraints
- 5.3. Middle-Term Constraints
- 5.4. Short-Term Constraints
- 5.5. Carving Away the Background
- 5.6. Directness, Stability, and the Stubbornness of Phenomena
- 6. Scale, Complexity, and the End of Experiments
- 6.1. The Assembly of Arguments
- 6.2. Collaborations and Communities
- 6.3. Subgroups, Arguments, and History
- 6.4. The End
- Appendix: Authors of Papers on Neutral Currents Abbreviations for Archival Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
