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Kapchinsky Memorial Book -- English Translation
English translation of Russian book compiled to honor the memory of Ilya Mikhailovich Kapchinsky - To the 90th Birthday Collection of Memories. The idea for this publication belongs to Nikolai…
R. A. Jameson, V. S. SkachkovMar 1, 2023
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Practicing carpe diem in the journey of studying physics: A brief review of the scientific contribution of Ru-Keng Su
We briefly review the scientific contributions of the late Prof. Ru-Keng Su in his academic life. In the area of intermediate and high-energy nuclear physics, Su explored various topics in…
Shaoyu Yin, Wei-Liang Qian, Ping Wang et al.Feb 26, 2023
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Early Star Charts of the Dutch East India Company
As the European maritime powers expanded their reach beyond north Atlantic coastal waters to distant lands as far away as the East Indies, access to a practical means of maritime navigation in the…
Richard de GrijsFeb 25, 2023
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Ontology of the Theory of Relativity
Both relativistic mechanics and Newtonian mechanics are based on principles that have ontological implications. We propose a series of formalisms that rigorously define the ontology underlying…
Salvador D. EscobedoFeb 24, 2023
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Compatibilidad del Argumento Cosmol\'ogico Kalam con la Ciencia Contempor\'anea
The Kalam cosmological argument, of a metaphysical nature, asserts that the universe had a first cause. This study examines the compatibility of its premises through a bibliographic review of…
Carlos DesaFeb 21, 2023
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On Einstein's last bid to keep a stationary cosmology
It is commonly known that the steady-state model of the universe was proposed and championed in a series of influential papers around mid-twenty century by Fred Hoyle, Hermann Bondi, and Thomas Gold.…
Salvador Galindo-Uribarri, Jorge L. Cervantes-CotaFeb 21, 2023
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What Is In a Survey? Simulation-Induced Selection Effects in Astronomy
Observational astronomy is plagued with selection effects that must be taken into account when interpreting data from astronomical surveys. Because of the physical limitations of observing time and…
Sarah C. Gallagher, Chris SmeenkFeb 20, 2023
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The Science Wars: a pox on both their houses
According to physicist David Mermin, the science wars was a series of exchanges between scientists and "sociologists, historians, and literary critics" whom the scientists thought to be "ludicrously…
Stephen BoughnFeb 20, 2023
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Respecting Boundaries: Theoretical Equivalence and Structure Beyond Dynamics
A standard line in the contemporary philosophical literature has it that physical theories are equivalent only when they agree on their empirical content, where this empirical content is often…
William J. Wolf, James ReadFeb 14, 2023
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Spacetime Conventionalism Revisited
We provide five rearticulations of the thesis that the structure of spacetime is conventional, rather than empirically determined, based upon variation of the structures that are empirically…
Ufuk I. Tasdan, Karim P. Y. ThébaultFeb 14, 2023
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On the Arrow of Time and Organized Complexity in the Universe
There is a widespread assumption that the universe in general, and the Earth's biosphere in particular, is becoming more complex over time. This paper formulates this assumption as a macroscopic law,…
Tatsuaki OkamotoFeb 14, 2023
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Magic Moments: A Collaboration with John Bell
I want to give an impression of the time I spent together with John S. Bell, of the atmosphere of our collaboration and friendship. I briefly review our work, the methods of nonrelativistic…
R. A. BertlmannFeb 11, 2023
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The earliest DT nuclear fusion discoveries
We describe the earliest measurements of the DT fusion cross section commissioned by the Manhattan Project, first at Purdue University in 1943 and then at Los Alamos 1945-6 and later, in 1951-2. The…
M. B. Chadwick, G. M. Hale, M. W. Paris et al.Feb 8, 2023
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The Laureates of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2022. Some personal memories
Some personal memories of the Nobel Prize Winners 2022 Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger are summarized and the significance of their works is described in a historical perspective.
Reinhold A. BertlmannFeb 7, 2023
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Historical reconstruction and personal recollections in the Memoirs of Dilworth/Occhialini
The folder containing the sheets of the Memoirs of Dilworth/Occhialini is kept in the Dilworth-Occhialini Archives at the BICF Library of the University of Milan. They cover the two English periods…
Pasquale TucciFeb 7, 2023
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Review of Berger and DiRuggiero, "Einstein: The Man and His Mind"
In this paper, I review the book: Gary S. Berger, Michael DiRuggiero. "Einstein: The Man and His Mind." Bologna: Damiani, 2022. Illustrations. 209 pp. $70.00, cloth, ISBN 978-88-6208-784-1.
Galina WeinsteinFeb 6, 2023
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Steven Weinberg (1933 - 2021)
This is a homage to the memory of Prof. Steven Weinberg who passed away on 23 July 2021.
Rohini M. Godbole, Urjit YajnikFeb 6, 2023
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The Physicists and the Historians of Physics
In the 60s of the last century the few courses of History of physics in Physics degree were held by scholars who, apart from a few exceptions, did not have a specific research background in the…
Pasquale TucciFeb 5, 2023
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Astronomical tent observatories, relics of a bygone era
Between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, long-haul oceanic voyages of exploration and discovery routinely carried astronomical tent observatories to support land-based longitude…
Richard de GrijsFeb 4, 2023
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On the speed of light in a vacuum in the presence of a magnetic field
The nature of light, the existence of magnetism, the physical meaning of a vacuum are problems so deeply related to philosophy that they have been discussed for thousands of years. In this paper, we…
Jonathan Agil, Rémy Battesti, Carlo RizzoFeb 1, 2023
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How can it be like that?
Richard Feynman famously said that nobody understands quantum mechanics and cautioned against asking: "But how can it be like that?" Something about the conceptual foundations of the theory is…
Jeffrey BubJan 31, 2023
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In our mind's eye: Visible and invisible in quantum theory, with Schr\"odinger's cat experiment
This article aims to reconsider E. Schr\"odinger's famous thought experiment, the cat paradox experiment, and its place in quantum foundations from a new perspective, grounded in the type of…
Arkady PlotnitskyJan 29, 2023
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The Stern-Gerlach Experiment, Translation of: "Der experimentelle Nachweis der Richtungsquantelung im Magnetfeld"
The following is a translation of the paper by Walther Gerlach and Otto Stern that reported the first evidence for the quantisation of atoms in a magnetic field. The atoms have quantum states…
Martin BauerJan 26, 2023
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Dal tramonto all'alba. Breve ricognizione sulla fisica italiana nel primo trentennio del XIX secolo
This paper presents an overview of the state of scientific research in physics in the Italian peninsula for the first thirty years of XIX century. In doing so, we focus geographically on the Kingdom…
Benedetto P. CasuJan 21, 2023
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On the Gravitational Effects of Light
[Translation of and Commentary on L\'eon Rosenfeld's "Ueber die Gravitationwirkungen des Lichtes", Zeitschrift fur Physik 65: 589-599 (1930). Originally published in German. Submitted for publication…
Alessio RocciJan 19, 2023
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