Feyerabend's Reevaluation of Scientific Practice: Quantum Mechanics, Realism and Niels Bohr

The aim of this paper is to give an account of the change in Feyerabend's (meta)philosophy that made him abandon methodological monism and embrace methodological pluralism. In this paper I offer an explanation in terms of a simple model of 'change of belief through evidence'. My main claim is that the evidence triggering this belief revision can be identified in Feyerabend's technical work in the interpretation of quantum mechanics, in particular his reevaluation of Bohr's contribution to it (1957-1964). This highlights an under-appreciated part of Feyerabend's early work and makes it central to an understanding of the dynamics in his overall philosophy of science

Effects of impingement of rocket exhaust gases and solid particles on a spacecraft Interim report, Mar. 18 - Oct. 25, 1966

Impingement damage to spacecraft from rocket exhaust gases and micron sized metal particle

Analysis of the project fire re-entry package flow field final technical report

Theoretical prediction of state of gas in flow field surrounding Apollo type vehicle in reentry at hypersonic speed

Accelerating DNA Computing via PLP-qPCR Answer Read out to Solve Traveling Salesman Problems

An asymmetric, fully-connected 8-city traveling salesman problem (TSP) was solved by DNA computing using the ordered node pair abundance (ONPA) approach through the use of pair ligation probe quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction (PLP-qPCR). The validity of using ONPA to derive the optimal answer was confirmed by in silico computing using a reverse-engineering method to reconstruct the complete tours in the feasible answer set from the measured ONPA. The high specificity of the sequence-tagged hybridization, and ligation that results from the use of PLPs significantly increased the accuracy of answer determination in DNA computing. When combined with the high throughput efficiency of qPCR, the time required to identify the optimal answer to the TSP was reduced from days to 25 min