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The idea of size in large-scale physics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

E. W. Bastin
Affiliation:
King's CollegeCambridge

Extract

The current controversy over the interpretation of radio-stellar counts shows, in my view, that in large-scale physics as well as on the very small scale the idea of size, as applied to distributions of matter, has broken down. I shall expand this view.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1961

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