Abstract
Bill Guier sees an equation as paragraphs of lucid prose. There are nuances and implications stemming from the relationship that the equation establishes between different aspects of the physical world. To George Weiffenbach, numbers, their intrinsic values and relationship to one another, are like a film. How they change tells him how the physical events that they represent are unfolding. These ways of viewing the world are quite usual for physicists, and the one is typical of theoretician, the other of the experimentalist.
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Gavaghan, H. (1998). Pursuit of Orbit. In: Something New Under the Sun. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1618-6_8
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