Richard Healey presents a ground-breaking study of an area of physics not previously explored by philosophy: gauge theory. Gauge theories have provided our most successful representations of the fundamental forces of nature. But how do such representations work? Healey presents a critical examination of the interpretations of gauge theory that aim to answer this question, and defends a distinctive thesis which gives us reason to believe that loops rather than points are the locations of fundamental properties.
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Richard Healey presents a ground-breaking study of an area of physics not previously explored by philosophy: gauge theory. Gauge theories have provided our most successful representations of the fundamental forces of nature. But how do such representations work? Healey presents a critical examination of the interpretations of gauge theory that aim to answer this question, and defends a distinctive thesis which gives us reason to believe that loops rather than points are the locations of fundamental properties.
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