When an experiment is crucial?
arXiv:physics/9807046
Abstract
Although we accept that Physics is, as a last resort, an experimental science, the relationship between theory and experiment is far away from being trivial. Any experiment is always explained within a determinate theoretical context and, at the same time, an experiment can give suggestions for theories or even can bring new theoretical challenges. Thus, we cannot say without ambiguity when an experiment is a crucial one.
20 pages, latex, no figures, in portugues