期刊： STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN PHYSICS, 2020; 69 ()
The multiple detections of gravitational waves by LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory), operated by Caltech and MIT, have be......
期刊： STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN PHYSICS, 2020; 69 ()
This paper develops an approach to the interpretation of quantum mechanics inspired by the philosophy of Howard Stein. Taking up Stein's (1994) call t......
期刊： STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN PHYSICS, 2020; 69 ()
This is one of a pair of papers that give a historical-cum-philosophical analysis of the endeavour to understand black hole entropy as a statistical m......
期刊： STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN PHYSICS, 2020; 69 ()
The microscopic state counting of the extremal Reissner-Nordstrom black hole performed by Andrew Strominger and Cumrun Vafa in 1996 has proven to be a......
期刊： STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN PHYSICS, 2020; 69 ()
We start by surveying the history of the idea of a fundamental conservation law and briefly examine the role conservation laws play in different class......
期刊： STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN PHYSICS, 2020; 69 ()
According to the Standard Model of particle physics, some gauge transformations are physical symmetries. That is, they are mathematical transformation......
期刊： STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN PHYSICS, 2020; 69 ()
The paper re-examines Nordstrom's scalar theory of gravity (NG) - arguably the most convincing relativistic theory of gravity before the advent of Gen......
期刊： STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN PHYSICS, 2020; 69 ()
A Markov process can be invariant under time reversal and it also can exhibit a failure of invariance that is "uniformly positive." I show how each of......
期刊： STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN PHYSICS, 2020; 69 ()
The current state of particle physics is conflicting. One has a marvellously working theory, the Standard Model, that leaves many questions open. This......
期刊： STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN PHYSICS, 2020; 69 ()
In this paper, 'novelty' is explored through a recent historical episode from high energy experimental physics to offer an understanding of novelty as......
期刊： STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN PHYSICS, 2020; 70 ()
We undertake a detailed analysis of three 'epistemic' approaches to symmetries, due, respectively, to Ismael and van Fraassen, Caulton, and Dasgupta. ......
期刊： STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN PHYSICS, 2020; 70 ()
The celu of the philosophical literature on the hole argument is the 1987 paper by Earman & Norton ["What Price Space-time Substantivalism? The Ho......
期刊： STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN PHYSICS, 2020; 70 ()
Karl Popper published, in 1968, a paper that allegedly found a flaw in a very influential article of Birkhoff and von Neumann, which pioneered the fie......
期刊： STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN PHYSICS, 2020; 70 ()
Fundamental physics contains an important link between properties of elementary particles and continuous symmetries of particle systems. For example, ......
期刊： STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN PHYSICS, 2020; 70 ()
The apparent nonlocality of quantum theory has been a persistent concern. Einstein et al. (1935) and Bell (1964) emphasized the apparent nonlocality a......
