fardid is an iranian contemporary philosopher who grows up in iran's inflamed political atmosphere. he is a verbal philosopher who is interested in iran's past history. having scattered speech and don't having any written document result to make a difficulty in finding his philosopher's ideas. fardid's philosophy isn't out of history and never be an abstract philos...

We present a model for the radio outbursts of microquasars based on the assumption of quasi-continuous jet ejection. The jets arèlit up' by shock fronts trav-eling along the jets during outbursts. The shocks accelerate relativistic particles which emit the observed synchrotron radiation. The observed comparatively at decay light curves combined with gradually steepening spectral slopes are expl...

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© 2005 American Institute of Physics, S-0031-9228-0512-010-9 N explicit engagement with the philosophy of science plays almost no role in the training of physicists or in physics research. What little the student learns about philosophical issues is typically learned casually, by a kind of intellectual osmosis. One picks up ideas and opinions in the lecture hall, in the laboratory, and in colla...

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