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Nancy Cartwright and the Logic of Quantum Mechanics
This paper deals with Nancy Cartwright's views on the measurement problem in Quantum Mechanics, as exposed in her book How the Laws of Physics Lie. She does not accept the logic of Quantum…
Pascal LedererJun 1, 2016
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The Development of Elementary Quantum Theory from 1900 to 1927
Planck's introduction of the quantum of action in 1900 was followed by 25 years of trial and error in quest of the understanding of the quantum world; different ideas and directions had to be…
Herbert CapellmannJun 1, 2016
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Ludvig Lorenz, Electromagnetism, and the Theory of Telephone Currents
Ludvig V. Lorenz (1829-1891) was Denmark's first theoretical physicist and the only one whose work attracted international attention in the second half of the nineteenth century. This paper…
Helge KraghJun 1, 2016
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From Ann Arbor to Sheffield: Around the World in 80 Years. I
Childhood and graduate school at Ann Arbor Michigan prepared Bill for an interesting and rewarding career in physics. Along the way came Carol and many joint discoveries with our many colleagues to…
William Graham HooverMay 31, 2016
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"Dancing with the stars" - astronomy and music in the Torres Strait
Song and dance are a traditional means of strengthening culture and passing knowledge to successive generations in the Torres Strait of northeastern Australia. Dances incorporate a range of…
Duane W. Hamacher, Alo Tapim, Segar Passi et al.May 27, 2016
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Bell's Universe: A Personal Recollection
My collaboration and friendship with John Bell is recollected. I will explain his outstanding contributions in particle physics, in accelerator physics, and his joint work with Mary Bell. Mary's…
Reinhold A. BertlmannMay 25, 2016
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The Ancient Astronomy of Easter Island: Mars and Sweet Potatoes
The role of the monument Moai a Mata Mea at Easter Island in the fertility cult has been explained. The own late statue that belonged to the ruling Miru group can provisionally be dated back to ca.…
Sergei RjabchikovMay 17, 2016
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On the construction of Tesla transformers. Period of oscillation and self-inductance of the coil. (Zur construction von Teslatransformatoren. Schwingungsdauer und Selbstinduction von Drahtspulen)
English Translation of Paul Drude's 1902 investigation into the factors affecting the self-resonance of single-layer solenoid coils. The ratio of the self-resonant half-wavelength to the…
David W Knight, Robert S WeaverMay 13, 2016
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What is Physics: The individual and the universal, and seeing past the noise
Along with weaving together observations, experiments, and theoretical constructs into a coherent mesh of understanding of the world around us, physics over its past five centuries has continuously…
A. R. P. RauMay 9, 2016
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Evolution of science II: Insights into working of Nature
We attempt to provide a comprehensive model of evolution of science across millennia taking into account the contributions of other intellectual traditions, cultural value system and increasing in…
M N VahiaMay 6, 2016
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Evolution of science I: Evolution of Mind
The central nervous system and particularly the brain was designed to control the life cycle of a living being. With increasing size and sophistication, in mammals, the brain became capable of…
M N VahiaMay 6, 2016
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Review: Garbe, Annette. Die partiell konventional, partiell empirisch bestimmte Realität physikalischer RaumZeiten. Königshausen & Neumann: Würzburg 2001, pp. 419, ISBN: 978-3-8260-2080-3
In 2001 the book "Die partiell konventional, partiell empirisch bestimmte Realität physikalischer RaumZeiten" was published by Königshausen & Neumann, with a volume of more than 400 pages. It…
Andrea ReichenbergerMay 5, 2016
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The future's not ours to see
An account of determinism and indeterminism in physics, addressed to non-physicist readers, leading up to proposals for how to understand statements about the future and single-event probability,…
Anthony SudberyMay 2, 2016
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Einstein contra Aristotle: the sound from the heavens
In "On the Heavens" Aristotle criticizes the Pythagorean point of view which claims the existence of a cosmic music and a cosmic sound. According to the Pythagorean argument, there exists a…
J. C. S. NevesApr 29, 2016
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Raymond Stora and Les Houches 1970
The marvelous Les Houches summer school of 1970 bore the trademark of Raymond Stora.
Arthur JaffeApr 29, 2016
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Hagedorn legacy
These remarks open the one-day session "50 years of Hagedorn's Temperature and the Statistical Bootstrap Model". These developments set the path at CERN towards the discovery of…
Johann RafelskiApr 29, 2016
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A Modest View of Bell's Theorem
In the 80 years since the seminal Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (EPR) paper, physicists and philosophers have mused about the `spooky action at a distance' aspect of quantum mechanics that so…
Stephen BoughnApr 28, 2016
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Short review of ITEP TH results, 1946-2015
We review some prominent results of ITEP theorists obtained in the first 70 years of the Institute operation
A. D. Dolgov, V. A. Novikov, M. I. VysotskyApr 28, 2016
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About David Ruelle, after his 80th birthday
This is, with minor modifications, a text read at the 114th Statistical Mechanics meeting, in honor of D.Ruelle and Y.Sinai, at Rutgers, Dec.13-15, 2015. It does not attempt to analyze, or not even…
Giovanni GallavottiApr 26, 2016
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Science and Illusions
It is mostly agreed that Popper's criterion of falsifiability fails to provide a useful demarcation between science and pseudo-science, because ad-hoc assumptions are always able to save any…
Luigi ScorzatoApr 23, 2016
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A simple model of scientific progress - with examples
One of the main goals of scientific research is to provide a description of the empirical data which is as accurate and comprehensive as possible, while relying on as few and simple assumptions as…
Luigi ScorzatoApr 23, 2016
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Emergence, causation and storytelling: condensed matter physics and the limitations of the human mind
The physics of matter in the condensed state is concerned with problems in which the number of constituent particles is vastly greater than can be easily comprehended. The inherent physical…
S. J. BlundellApr 23, 2016
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Shadows over the speed of light
In this paper, we discuss some of the consequences of the CGPM (1983) definition of meter and, in particular, we discuss giving the speed of light an exact value. It is shown that this act touches…
J J Mares, P Hubik, V Spicka et al.Apr 19, 2016
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Archaeoastronomy in the Khmer heartland
The heartland of the Khmer empire is literally crowded by magnificent monuments built in the course of many centuries. These monuments include the world-famous state-temples, such as Angkor Wat, but…
Giulio MagliApr 19, 2016
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Personal Recollection, 1945 - 1960
This article gives a sketch of teachers and colleagues who have had strong influence on my becoming a particle physicist.
Toichiro KinoshitaApr 17, 2016
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