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The idea of size in large-scale physics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

E. W. Bastin
E. W. Bastin
Affiliation:
King's CollegeCambridge
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The current controversy over the interpretation of radio-stellar counts shows, in my view, that in large-scale physics as well as on the very small scale the idea of size, as applied to distributions of matter, has broken down. I shall expand this view.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 57 , Issue 4 , October 1961 , pp. 848 - 850
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1961

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