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Self-consciousness and personal identity in quantum panprotopsychism
In previous papers, we demonstrated that an ontology of quantum mechanics, described in terms of states and events with internal phenomenal aspects (a form of panprotopsychism), is well suited to…
Rodolfo Gambini, Jorge PullinMay 13, 2025
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Reconstructing the Antikythera Mechanism s Central Front dial parts Division and Placement of the Zodiac Dial ring
In this paper we analyze, discuss and present the design of the Antikythera Mechanism s central front parts. Based on the aligned and of same scale visual images of Fragment C front/back face and the…
Aristeidis Voulgaris, Christophoros Mouratidis, Andreas VossinakisMay 13, 2025
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Imagination and Understanding through Astrophysical Imagery
Scientific articles, for instance in the field of astrophysics, are often filled with a variety of images. In philosophical studies, these images are usually analyzed in terms of their function…
Paul H. W. DisbergMay 13, 2025
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Against Radical Relationalism: in Defense of the Ordinal Structure of Time
Some authors in the quantum gravity community endorse, explicitly or implicitly, a radical relationalist view of time which states that the ordinal structure of time is not needed even in our…
Álvaro Mozota FraucaMay 13, 2025
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Naturalistic Metaphysics and the Parity Thesis: Why Scientific Realism Doesn't Lead to Realism about Metaphysics
In recent work, Nina Emery has defended the view that, in the context of naturalistic metaphysics, one should maintain the same epistemic attitude towards science and metaphysics. That is,…
Raoni Arroyo, Matteo MorgantiMay 12, 2025
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On the orientation of historic Christian churches of Fuerteventura: conciliating tradition, winds and topography
We present the results of an analysis of the precise spatial orientation of colonial Christian churches located in the Canary Island of Fuerteventura (Spain). Our sample consists of 48 churches, most…
Maria Florencia Muratore, Alejandro Gangui, Maitane Urrutia-Aparicio et al.May 11, 2025
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\`As vezes, solucionar uma crise depende de ampli\'a-la: a contribuic\~ao de Louis de Broglie \`a F\'isica Qu\antica
Faz-se uma breve reconstruc\~ao hist\'orica de alguns pontos que, de algum modo, contribu\'iram para o trabalho seminal de Louis de Broglie. Em particular, enfatiza-se a relev\ancia de sua tese…
Francisco Caruso, Vitor OguriMay 9, 2025
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Something about the Mechanism of Induction Phenomena: The forgotten work of Berta de Haas-Lorentz on diamagnetism in superconductors
In 1925, Dr. Geertruida Luberta "Berta" de Haas-Lorentz published the paper "Iets over het mechanisme van inductieverschijnselen" in the journal Physica. Her paper was the first to discuss perfect…
Giulia Venditti, Carlo Beenakker, Louk RademakerMay 8, 2025
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The Journey from Planck Distribution to Bose Statistics From Classical to Quantum Mechanics and Beyond
In 1924, Satyendra Nath Bose's pioneering work laid the foundation for Bose-Einstein statistics, which describes particles with integral spins. His derivation of Planck's law for blackbody radiation…
Shreetam Dash, Prasanta K. PanigrahiMay 8, 2025
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Einstein, Evolution of Knowledge, and the Anthropocene: A Critical Reading of J\"urgen Renn's Historiography
This article offers a critical engagement with J\"urgen Renn's historiographical approach, with particular focus on "The Evolution of Knowledge" and "The Einsteinian Revolution" (co-authored with…
Galina WeinsteinMay 6, 2025
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Uma breve hist\'oria do spin
A brief analysis is made of some historical points involved in the consolidation of the theoretical concept of spin, originally introduced to explain the structure of atomic spectra in the…
Francisco Caruso, Vitor OguriMay 6, 2025
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The Impact and Influence of Academic Genealogies
We introduce the concept of an academic genealogy, or AG, and illustrate how AG charts may be constructed and then demonstrate how this methodology can be used by applying it to create the partial or…
Bryan Briones, Ronald E. Mickens, Charmayne PattersonApr 29, 2025
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The fallacies of LCDM falsifications
In recent years, numerous arguments have emerged suggesting that the LCDM (Lambda Cold Dark Matter) model may be inconsistent with observational data, requiring more or less radical revisions.…
Alain BlanchardApr 27, 2025
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Tachyons Before Tachyons: Lev Strum (1890-1936) and Superluminal Velocities
No particle or signal carrying information can travel at a speed exceeding that of light in vacuum. Although this has for a long time been accepted as a law of nature, prior to Einstein's 1905 theory…
Helge KraghApr 25, 2025
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Is spacetime curved? Assessing the underdetermination of general relativity and teleparallel gravity
Realism about general relativity (GR) seems to imply realism about spacetime curvature. The existence of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity (TEGR) calls this into question, for (a)…
Ruward Mulder, James ReadApr 24, 2025
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Scientific Spirit of Chien-Shiung Wu: From Quantum Entanglement to Parity Nonconservation
In 1950, Chien-Shiung Wu and her student published a coincidence experiment on entangled photon pairs that were created in electron-positron annihilation. This experiment precisely verified the…
Yu ShiApr 23, 2025
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Revisiting the Einstein-de Haas experiment: the Amp\`ere Museum's hidden treasure
Unearthed in the Amp\`ere Museum near Lyon, France, a genuine version of the Einstein-de Haas experiment apparatus offers a rare glimpse into Einstein's experimental interests. This remarkable find…
Alfonso San Miguel, Bernard PallandreApr 23, 2025
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Apples Falling, Buckets Rolling, and Why Inertia Keeps Trolling: Inertial Motion is Not Natural Motion
Inertia has long been treated as the paradigm of natural motion. This paper challenges this identification through the lens of General Relativity. Drawing on Norton (2012)'s distinction between…
Nicola BamontiApr 20, 2025
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Towards an Account of Complementarities and Context-Dependence
Modern physics proposals present deep tensions between seemingly contradictory descriptions of reality. Views of wave-particle duality, black hole complementarity, and the Unruh effect demand…
Hong Joo RyooApr 16, 2025
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From Symmetry to Supersymmetry to Supergravity
The theoretical developments that led to supersymmetry, first global and then local, over roughly six years (1970-1976) arose from a convergence of physical insights and mathematical methods stemming…
Elena CastellaniApr 15, 2025
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Natural Theories
We consider the class of physical theories whose dynamics are given by natural equations, which are partial differential equations determined by a functor from the category of n-manifolds, for some…
James Owen Weatherall, Eleanor MarchApr 8, 2025
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On (Some) Gauge Theories of Gravity
I consider the sense in which teleparallel gravity and symmetric teleparallel gravity may be understood as gauge theories of gravity. I first argue that both theories have surplus structure. I then…
James Owen WeatherallApr 8, 2025
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Spacetime Models for Cosmology
I revisit Roberto Torretti's "Spacetime Models for the World" [SHPMP 31 (2):171-186 (2000)] in the light of more recent work in (philosophy of) cosmology. I discuss the motivations for FLRW…
James Owen WeatherallApr 8, 2025
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Limiting velocity and generalized Lorentz trasformations
After a short Historical bibliographical note, in the Starting points attention will be focused on some postulates common to classical mechanics and special relativity. Starting from these premises,…
Fabiano MinniApr 6, 2025
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Blurred orbits and blurred particles: Heisenberg's 1926 helium atom
This work analyses the extent to which the "blurred orbits" of the current model for the atom, drafted by Heisenberg in 1926, fits the image of a bunch of wandering electrons around a nucleus. We…
G. Gimeno, M. Xipell, Enric PérezApr 5, 2025
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