The Unification of Macroscopic Physics
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Title | The Unification of Macroscopic Physics |
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Author(s) | Burniston Brown |
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Published | 1958 |
Journal | Science Progress |
Volume | 46 |
No. of pages | 15 |
Pages | 15-29 |
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Abstract
The ancient Greek atomists maintained that forces between bodies could only be communicated by pressure or impact, a view that was supported by Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas: it appears in the scholastic axiom that C matter cannot act where it is not. Duns Scotus and his followers did not agree; William of Ockham using his Razor to out any intermediate actions which were unobservable and saying that there was no reason to object to action-at-a-distance.