Quantum Field Theory in a Semiotic Perspective [electronic resource] /
Dosch, Hans Günter.author.
Müller, Volkhard F.author.
Sieroka, Norman.author.
Viewing physical theories as symbolic constructions came to the fore in the middle of the nineteenth century with the emancipation of the classical theory of the electromagnetic field from mechanics; most notably this happened through the work of Helmholtz, Hertz, Poincaré, and later Weyl. The epistemological problems that nourished this development are today highlighted within quantum field theory. The present essay starts off with a concise and non-technical outline of the firmly based aspects of relativistic quantum field theory, i.e. the very  successful description of subnuclear phenomena
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Viewing physical theories as symbolic constructions came to the fore in the middle of the nineteenth century with the emancipation of the classical theory of the electromagnetic field from mechanics; most notably this happened through the work of Helmholtz, Hertz, Poincaré, and later Weyl. The epistemological problems that nourished this development are today highlighted within quantum field theory. The present essay starts off with a concise and non-technical outline of the firmly based aspects of relativistic quantum field theory, i.e. the very  successful description of subnuclear phenomena
Includes bibliographical references (p. [53]-56) and indexes.
Relativistic Quantum Field Theories Viewed as Physical Theories -- Particles and Fields -- Theories of Signs and Symbols, and Structural Realism -- A Theory of Symbols for Quantum Field Theory -- Summary.
Quantum optics.
Quantum physics.
Quantum Optics.
Quantum Physics.