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The history of the Russian study of Chinese astronomy
A short history of Russian researches in Chinese astronomy in 19-20 centuries
Galina SinkevichJan 30, 2021
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A Review of The Algebraic Approaches to Quantum Mechanics. Appraisals on Their Theoretical Relevance
I review the various algebraic foundations of quantum mechanics. They have been suggested since the birth of this theory till up to last year. They are the following ones: Heisenberg-Born-Jordan…
Antonino DragoJan 29, 2021
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The Fourth Dimension: From its spatial nature in Euclidean geometry to a time-like component of non-Euclidean manifolds
In this article, the evolution of the ideas about the fourth spatial dimension is presented, starting from those which come out within classical Euclidean geometry and going through those arose in…
José Maria Filardo Bassalo, Francisco Caruso, Vitor OguriJan 28, 2021
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Free agency and determinism: is there a sensible definition of computational sourcehood?
Can free agency be compatible with determinism? Compatibilists argue that the answer is yes, and it has been suggested that the computer science principle of "computational irreducibility" sheds…
Marius Krumm, Markus P. MuellerJan 27, 2021
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Spacetime singularities and a novel formulation of indeterminism
Spacetime singularities in general relativity are commonly thought to be problematic, in that they signal a breakdown in the theory. We address the question of how to interpret this breakdown,…
Feraz Azhar, Mohammad Hossein NamjooJan 26, 2021
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Regularizing (away) vacuum energy
In this paper I formulate Minimal Requirements for Candidate Predictions in quantum field theories, inspired by viewing the standard model as an effective field theory. I then survey standard…
Adam KoberinskiJan 25, 2021
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Dirac Book The Principles Of Quantum Mechanics as presenting the alternative organization of a theory
Authoritative appraisals qualified this book as an axiomatic theory. However, being its essential content no more than an analogy, its theoretical organization cannot be an axiomatic one. In fact, in…
Antonino DragoJan 23, 2021
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William Dawes: Practical Astronomy on the "First Fleet" from England to Australia
On 13 May 1787, a convict fleet of 11 ships left Portsmouth, England, on a 24,000 km, 8-month-long voyage to New South Wales. The voyage would take the "First Fleet" under Captain Arthur Phillip via…
Richard de Grijs, Andrew P. JacobJan 22, 2021
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Sydney's Scientific Beginnings: William Dawes' Observatories in Context
The voyage of the "First Fleet" from Britain to the new colony of New South Wales was not only a military enterprise, it also had a distinct scientific purpose. Britain's fifth Astronomer Royal,…
Richard de Grijs, Andrew P. JacobJan 22, 2021
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The Quantum Field Theory on Which the Everyday World Supervenes
Effective Field Theory (EFT) is the successful paradigm underlying modern theoretical physics, including the "Core Theory" of the Standard Model of particle physics plus Einstein's general…
Sean M. CarrollJan 19, 2021
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Out of Nowhere: Introduction: The emergence of spacetime
This is a chapter of the planned monograph "Out of Nowhere: The Emergence of Spacetime in Quantum Theories of Gravity", co-authored by Nick Huggett and Christian W\"uthrich and under contract with…
Nick Huggett, Christian WuthrichJan 18, 2021
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On the Alleged Use of Keplerian Telescopes in Naples in the 1610s
The alleged use of Keplerian telescopes by Fabio Colonna (1567-1640), in Naples, since as early as October 1614, as claimed in some recent papers, is shown to be in fact untenable and due to a…
Paolo Del SantoJan 16, 2021
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The history of LHCb
In this paper we describe the history of the LHCb experiment over the last three decades, and its remarkable successes and achievements. LHCb was conceived primarily as a b-physics experiment,…
I. Belyaev, G. Carboni, N. Harnew et al.Jan 13, 2021
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European Longitude Prizes. II. Astronomy, Religion and Engineering Solutions in the Dutch Republic
The late-sixteenth century witnessed a major expansion of Dutch shipping activity from northern European waters to the Indian Ocean and beyond. At a time when the Renaissance had just arrived on the…
Richard de GrijsJan 12, 2021
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The Empirical Under-determination Argument Against Scientific Realism for Dual Theories
This paper explores the options available to the anti-realist to defend a Quinean empirical under-determination thesis using examples of dualities. I first explicate a version of the empirical…
Sebastian De HaroJan 4, 2021
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Mythical Thought in Bohr's Anti-Realist Realism (Or: Lessons on How to Capture and Defeat Smoky Dragons)
In this work we argue that the power and effectiveness of the Bohrian approach to quantum mechanics is essentially grounded on an inconsistent form of anti-realist realism which supports not only the…
Christian de RondeJan 1, 2021
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Reviving Frequentism
Philosophers now seem to agree that frequentism is an untenable strategy to explain the meaning of probabilities. Nevertheless, I want to revive frequentism, and I will do so by grounding…
Mario HubertDec 31, 2020
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On tauroctonies and stars: Mithras and the life of an image
A hero or a god, wearing an oriental garb and a Phrygian cap, presses his body on that of a bull to subdue it. With his flexed knee he presses the back of the animal and holds its head with his left…
Alejandro GanguiDec 29, 2020
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Revising the Cosmic Story
The essay argues that the standard cosmological model is one sided and incomplete. Its recognition of the primacy of radiant energy has no rational justification and empirical verification and,…
Gennady ShkliarevskyDec 23, 2020
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Discovery of the Relativistic Schr\"odinger Equation
We discuss the discovery of the relativistic wave equation for a spin-zero charged particle in the Coulomb field by Erwin Schr\"odinger (and elaborate on why he didn't publish it).
Kamal Barley, José Vega-Guzmán, Andreas Ruffing et al.Dec 23, 2020
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The Measurement Process in Relational Quantum Mechanics
Understanding the quantum measurement problem is closely associated with understanding wave function collapse. Motivated by Breuer's claim that it is impossible for an observer to distinguish all…
B. K. JenningsDec 21, 2020
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From the two notions of paradigm and reduction between theories to a new multilinear History of physics
A new mathematics, the constructive one, characterizes a singular limit as undecidable. Hence, a singular limit between two theories actually represents a difference between two different kinds of…
Antonino DragoDec 21, 2020
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A Case Study of the Picture Rocks Sun Dagger, Plus a Review of the Intentionality of Sun Daggers
The Picture Rocks Sun Dagger is a spiral petroglyph on a hillside northwest of Tucson that shows sun dagger events at both the summer solstice and the equinoxes. On each of these dates, a…
Bradley E. Schaefer, James StammDec 20, 2020
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The Crucial Calculation as a Motivating Force In Particle Physics
Crucial experiments have a long history of contributions to progress in physics. Similarly, we claim that in the period roughly from 1955 to 1985 crucial calculations played a significant role in…
Howard J. SchnitzerDec 16, 2020
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The mass-energy equivalence and length contraction are consistent with compression of a fluidic aether with a speed of sound equal to the speed of light
The Lorentz aether theory was the mathematically equivalent precursor to the special theory of relativity (SR). It assumed the existence of a static aether filling space in which particles are…
Johannes D. JohanssonDec 14, 2020
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