Single Magnetic Northpoles and Southpoles and Their Importance for Science

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Notes

1 The main element of these rumours was his discovery of subelectrons. On this point Ehrenhaft never admitted to have been wrong. His main counterargument was the utter unreliability of Stokes’ law.

2 Some participants tried to argue that one was dealing here with quantum effects. Popper replied that, one 〈sic〉 the contrary, one was still in the classical domain and could use the phenomena, via the correspondence-principle, to construct an argument against the quantum theory.

3 "Was koennen sie sagen mit allen ihren Theorien? Nix koennen sie sagen. Sitzen muessen sie bleiben. Still muessen sie sein!"

4 Carl G. Hempel Philosophy of Natural Science Prentice Hall 1966, pp 25; 40 〈Hempel 1966, 25, 40〉. The reference is to the subelectrons.

5 ‘Normal’ in the sense of Kuhn’s "normal science".