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Reasoned Alternatives

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The proliferation of textbooks over the last half century has proceeded at such a pace that the burden of keeping up with new developments forces many a new author to repeat the conclusions of their immediate predecessors without thought or question. In the process good faith leads on to dogmatic belief in certain fundamentals, never to be questioned again.

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    This book is recommended to readers less familiar with new interpretations of modern physics.

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    Index of refraction is defined as if the air is a continuous medium, which it is not.

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Boeyens, J.C.A. (2010). Reasoned Alternatives. In: Chemical Cosmology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3828-9_8

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