Projektnummer

0071449

Zusammenfassung

The concept of scale has come to play a fundamental role in theoretical physics, shaping the way physicists think about physical problems and attempt to address them. Entities and structures are now systematically organized in terms of their characteristic size. Physical effects are systematically analyzed according to their relative importance and dependency across scales (e.g., distance, velocity, energy). Most physicists even believe that our best current theories only work at certain scales. When and why did this transformation happen? How does it affect our world picture? The aim of this ...