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In the beginning of the present treatise we discussed the observation that many scientists consider Newton’s classical physics as understandable and intuitive, whereas Modern Physics of the twentieth century is judged as difficult to grasp and unintuitive. This assessment is shared by many physicists and presumably by the majority of philosophers of science. Here, we did not investigate the question why physicists as well as philosophers accept these statements as true – simply since we consider both theses as erroneous.
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Mittelstaedt, P. (2013). Concluding Remarks. In: Rational Reconstructions of Modern Physics. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 174. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5593-2_6
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