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As we shall see, the undeniable natural phenomenon of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) seems to indicate a serious mismatch between theory and reality. This mismatch is well expressed by what is sometimes called Earman’s Principle: ‘While idealizations are useful and, perhaps, even essential to progress in physics, a sound principle of interpretation would seem to be that no effect can be counted as a genuine physical effect if it disappears when the idealizations are removed.’ (Earman, 2004, p. 191)
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Landsman, K. (2017). Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking. In: Foundations of Quantum Theory. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 188. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51777-3_10
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