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Scientific and personal recollections of Roberto Petronzio
This paper aims to recall some of the main contributions of Roberto Petronzio to physics, with a particular regard to the period we have been working together. His seminal contributions cover an…
Giorgio ParisiJan 6, 2018
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Mikhail Lomonosov. Meditations on Solidity and Fluidity of Bodies(1760). English translation and commentary by V.Shiltsev
This is English translation of Mikhail Lomonosov seminal work from its Russian original. It continues the series of English translations of most important scientific works included by Lomonosov in…
Mikhail Lomonosov, Vladimir ShiltsevJan 3, 2018
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Halley's Wind: Reappraising a Centuries Old Theory for the Trade Winds
The astronomical work of Edmond Halley (1656-1742) during the latter half of the Copernican Revolution contributed substantially to the scientific proof and widespread acceptance of heliocentrism.…
Kristopher B. KarnauskasJan 2, 2018
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Victorinus Schönfeldt (1533 - 1591) und sein "Prognosticon Astrologicum"
Annual astrological calendars, practica and prognostications became widespread publications in Europe after the invention of printing presses in the 15th century. Using the national language instead…
Andreas SchrimpfDec 30, 2017
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Maria Krawczyk: friend and physicist
With this note, we remember our friend Maria Krawczyk, who passed away this year, on May 24th. We briefly outline some of her physics interests and main accomplishments, and her great human and moral…
Rohini M. Godbole, Giulia PancheriDec 29, 2017
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Century of
The cosmological constant was proposed 100 years ago in order to make the model of static Universe, imagined then by most scientists, possible. Today it is the main candidate for the physical essence…
Bohdan NovosyadlyjDec 28, 2017
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Roberto Petronzio and the QCD
This paper aims to recall some of the main contributions of Roberto Petronzio to QCD, with a particular regard to the period we have been working together. His seminal contributions span both the…
Giorgio ParisiDec 28, 2017
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Historical and personal recollections of Guido Altarelli
In this paper I will present a short scientific biography of Guido Altarelli, briefly describing some of his most important seminal works. I will analyze in great details the paper of the q2…
Giorgio ParisiDec 28, 2017
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How not to establish the non-renormalizability of gravity
General relativity cannot be formulated as a perturbatively renormalizable quantum field theory. An argument relying on the validity of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy formula aims at dismissing…
Juliusz Doboszewski, Niels Siegbert LinnemannDec 28, 2017
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Einstein en la Argentina: el impacto cientifico de su visita
We present a brief review of the impact that Albert Einstein's visit to Argentina had on the scientific community and on the general public. Among other particularities, his visit was, at a…
Alejandro Gangui, Eduardo L. OrtizDec 26, 2017
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Higher Theory and the Three Problems of Physics
According to the Butterfield--Isham proposal, to understand quantum gravity we must revise the way we view the universe of mathematics. However, this paper demonstrates that the current elaborations…
Antti VeilahtiDec 26, 2017
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On the orientation of the historic churches of Lanzarote: when human necessity dominates over canonical prescriptions
We present the analysis of the measured orientations of 30 churches of the island of Lanzarote, in the Canarian archipelago, built prior to 1810, as well as a few buildings of later times, which…
Alejandro Gangui, A. Cesar Gonzalez Garcia, Maria Antonia Perera Betancort et al.Dec 26, 2017
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Potentiality, Actuality and Non-Separability in Quantum and Classical Physics: Res Potentiae in the Macroscopic World
To help resolve stubborn aporias in quantum mechanics, Kastner, Kauffman and Epperson have recently proposed a new interpretation of Heisenbergs ontological duality of res extensa and res potentia.…
Robert R. Bishop, Joseph E. BrennerDec 20, 2017
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Story of the Developments in Statistical Physics of Fracture, Breakdown \& Earthquake: A Personal Account
We review the developments of the statistical physics of fracture and earthquake over the last four decades. We argue that major progress has been made in this field and that the key concepts should…
Bikas K. ChakrabartiDec 20, 2017
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Henri Bénard: Thermal convection and vortex shedding
We present in this article the work of Henri Bénard (1874-1939), French physicist who began the systematic experimental study of two hydrodynamic systems: the thermal convection of fluids heated from…
J. E. WesfreidDec 19, 2017
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Archaeoastronomy of the Sun path at Borobudur
The world famous Javanese temple of Borobudur is located at the westernmost end of a straight line which includes two satellite temples, Mendut and Pawon. Originally, the three buildings were…
Giulio MagliDec 18, 2017
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Trading Zones Revisited
We describe and then elaborate the model of trading zones first presented in Collins et al 2007, Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise. We believe this expanded version of the model includes some…
Harry Collins, Robert Evans, Michael GormanDec 18, 2017
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Odessa Scientific School of Researchers Of Variable Stars: From V.P.Tsesevich (1907-1983) to Our Days
The biography of Vladimir Platonovich Tsesevich (11.11.1907 - 28.10.1983), a leader of the astronomy in Odessa from 1944 to 1983, is briefly reviewed, as well as the directions of study, mainly the…
Ivan L. AndronovDec 16, 2017
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The Thales experiment
A few thoughts on physical meaning of geometry, space and time.
Richard KernerDec 16, 2017
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Attempt at a theory of the friction of fluids
This is a translation from Latin to Portuguese of Euler's 'Attempt at a theory of the friction of fluids'. According to the records, a treatise by Euler with the title 'Tentamen…
Sylvio R. BistafaDec 14, 2017
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Where Did Copernicus Obtain the Tools to Build His Heliocentric Model? Historical Considerations and a Guiding Translation of Valentin Rose's "Ptolemaeus und die Schule von Toledo" (1874)
We present a translation of the German text of an 1874 article by Valentin Rose that concerns the possible school of translators that worked in Toledo, Spain, from about 1150 to 1250. Rose's…
Kevin Krisciunas, Belen BistueDec 14, 2017
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On the figure that the wind can induce on a stagnant fluid
This is an annotated translation of Euler's 1777 manuscript "De Figura Quam Ventus Fluido Stagnanti Inducere Valet", where Euler models the shape which the wind gives to a still liquid…
Sylvio R. BistafaDec 13, 2017
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Epistemological vs. Ontological Relationalism in Quantum Mechanics: Relativism or Realism?
In this paper we investigate the history of relationalism and its present use in some interpretations of quantum mechanics. In the first part of this article we will provide a conceptual analysis of…
Christian de Ronde, Raimundo Fernandez MoujanDec 11, 2017
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Origin Gaps and the Eternal Sunshine of the Second-Order Pendulum
The rich experiences of an intentional, goal-oriented life emerge, in an unpredictable fashion, from the basic laws of physics. Here I argue that this unpredictability is no mirage: there are true…
Simon DeDeoDec 8, 2017
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"Space is blue and birds fly through it"
Quantum mechanics is not about 'quantum states': it is about values of physical variables. I give a short fresh presentation and update on the relational perspective on the theory, and a comment on…
Carlo RovelliDec 8, 2017
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