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| Author | Daniel R Athearn |
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| Published | 1994 |
| Publisher | SUNY Press |
| Pages | 387 |
| ISBN | 0791418073 |
This book shows that the breakoff of narrative causal explanation in physics, although remarkable, is no basis for the negative view of scientific knowledge. It demonstrates that radiation and field phenomena, which include a wide array of enigmatic facts, are amenable to explanation even in their most puzzling details.
