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(1991) Erkenntnis orientated, Dordrecht, Springer.
The difficulties that have arisen with respect to a successful integration of Bohr's model of the atom into mechanics and electrodynamics have recently led to speculations that a failure of all of our space-time conceptions is involved rather than a mere inadequacy of physics. It seems highly doubtful that it might be possible to represent inneratomic occurrences in the form of space-time models. Comments of this kind have been made by Bohr1 as well as Born, Jordan and Heisenberg2 in connection with their matrix mechanics. Schrödinger's wave mechanics should be seen as the decisive step towards a solution of the problem of matter. His views on wave mechanics have given a profound new turn to the problem of the atom. Accordingly, it seems justified to investigate once and for all the epistemológica! aspects of the problem of the atom.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-3490-3_3
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Reichenbach, H. (1991)., The space problem in the new quantum mechanics, in W. Spohn (ed.), Erkenntnis orientated, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 29-47.
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