Uma História Cultural da Teoria da Matriz-S: Geoffrey Chew e a Filosofia de Bootstrap

Gustavo Rodrigues Rocha

doi:10.53727/rbhc.v10i1.91

Authors

Gustavo Rodrigues Rocha Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53727/rbhc.v10i1.91

Keywords:

history of physics in the 20th century, theory selection, scientific controversies

Abstract

This paper investigates a case study of the interplay between cultural milieu and theory selection in the history of physics in the 20th century. Geoffrey Chew, a physicist based at UC Berkeley, working at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and embedded in the Zeitgeist of the 1960s-70s, led the so-called S-Matrix Program, a theory which was believed would replace quantum field theory.