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A World without Particles or Forces

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Lakatos Award lecture

Date: Thursday 14 May 2009
Time: 6-7.30pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Richard Healey
Chair: Professor John Worrall

Physicists talk about 'elementary particles'. But do particles exist? The Newtonian world depended on forces between particles, but the real world may be much stranger.

Richard Healey is professor of philosophy at the University of Arizona.

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