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It is a general belief that physics is a science where fundamental laws of nature are established. One expects these laws to have a deterministic character. A student being introduced to physics first encounters the fundamental theories, for instance Newtonian mechanics, electrodynamics, and the theory of relativity, and sees in these the ideals of a scientific theory.
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Honerkamp, J. (1998). Statistical Physics Is More than Statistical Mechanics. In: Statistical Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03709-6_1
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