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On the Limits of Experimental Knowledge
Peter W. Evans, Karim P. Y. Thébault
To demarcate the limits of experimental knowledge we probe the limits of what might be called an experiment. By appeal to examples of scientific practice from astrophysics and anal…
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What can bouncing oil droplets tell us about quantum mechanics?
Peter W. Evans, Karim P. Y. Thèbault
A recent series of experiments have demonstrated that a classical fluid mechanical system, constituted by an oil droplet bouncing on a vibrating fluid surface, can be induced to di…