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History of science

the thesis that Weimar intellectual hostility to causality pushed German physicists toward an acausal quantum theory.

In history of science, Forman thesis refers to the thesis that Weimar intellectual hostility to causality pushed German physicists toward an acausal quantum theory. This meaning comes from Forman (1971) in Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences.[1]

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  1. Forman, P. (1971). Weimar Culture, Causality, and Quantum Theory, 1918-1927: Adaptation by German Physicists and Mathematicians to a Hostile Intellectual Environment. Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, 3, 1-115. https://doi.org/10.2307/27757315

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