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Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (10)

Bridgman and the Normative Independence of Science: An Individual Physicist in the Shadow of the Bomb   from philsciSat Mar 16 2024 03:22:15 (1 day)# 1. Jalloh, Mahmoud (2024) Bridgman and the Normative Independence of Science: An Individual Physicist in the Shadow of the Bomb. [Preprint] Send To > Keep unreadDelete Laws of nature as results of a trade-off — Rethinking the… Read more →

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Determining the difference between local acceleration and local gravity: applications of the equivalence principle to relativistic trajectories   from gr-qc by Steven A. BalbusFri Mar 08 2024 12:30:03 (22 hours)# 1. arXiv:2403.03965v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We show by direct calculation that the common Equivalence Principle explanation for why gravity must deflect light is quantitatively incorrect by a factor of three in Schwarzschild… Read more →

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Your Cosmos Needs You! From Nothingness to Quantum Existentialism   from philsciSat Mar 02 2024 01:56:48 (18 hours)# 1. Rickles, Dean (2023) Your Cosmos Needs You! From Nothingness to Quantum Existentialism. [Preprint] Send To > Keep unreadDelete The Unruh Effect and Theory Intepretation in an Effective Framework   from philsciSat Mar 02 2024 01:55:08 (18 hours)# 2. Maggiani, Marco (2024) The Unruh Effect… Read more →

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The Thermodynamic Origins and Dynamical Foundations of Quantum Discontinuity   from philsciSat Feb 24 2024 03:37:45 (8 hours)# 1. Taschetto, Diana (2024) The Thermodynamic Origins and Dynamical Foundations of Quantum Discontinuity. [Preprint] Send To > Keep unreadDelete Life in a random universe: Sciama’s argument reconsidered   from physics.hist-ph by Zhi-Wei Wang, Samuel L. BraunsteinFri Feb 23 2024 09:38:07 (1 day)# 2. arXiv:2109.10241v4 Announce Type: replace… Read more →

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History of Lattice Field Theory from a Statistical Perspective   from physics.hist-ph by Wolfgang BietenholzFri Feb 16 2024 13:58:48 (20 hours)# 1. arXiv:2402.09628v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Researchers working in lattice field theory constitute an established community since the early 1990s, and around the same time the online open-access e-print repository arXiv was created. The fact that this field has a specific arXiv… Read more →

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Beyond Classification and Prediction: The Promise of Physics-Informed Machine Learning in Astronomy and Cosmology   from philsciFri Feb 09 2024 22:02:20 (14 hours)# 1. Meskhidze, Helen (2024) Beyond Classification and Prediction: The Promise of Physics-Informed Machine Learning in Astronomy and Cosmology. [Preprint] Send To > Keep unreadDelete On the reality of the quantum state once again: A no-go theorem for psi-ontic models?… Read more →

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Decoherence-Free Subspaces Cannot Prevent the Collapse of Wave Functions   from quant-ph by Alfred Li Herschel A. Rabitz Benjamin LienhardFri Feb 02 2024 20:56:49 (16 hours)# 1. Ensuring the effectiveness of quantum information processing relies on prolonged coherence times and precise quantum control. Investigating the limitations of quantum information processing is vital for advancing the development of quantum processors and algorithms. One common… Read more →

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Feynman’s Reversed Sprinkler Puzzle Solved   from APS selected papers by Philip BallFri Jan 26 2024 05:00:00 (1 day)# 1. Author(s): Philip Ball Which direction would an S-shaped lawn sprinkler rotate if it were submerged and the flow were reversed? Experiments now provide a definitive answer. [Physics 17, 15] Published Fri Jan 26, 2024 Send To > Keep unreadDelete Measures of distance in quantum… Read more →

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Robustness and the Event Horizon Telescope: the case of the first image of M87*   from philsciThu Jan 18 2024 01:58:47 (8 hours)# 1. Doboszewski, Juliusz and Elder, Jamee (2024) Robustness and the Event Horizon Telescope: the case of the first image of M87*. [Preprint] Send To > Keep unreadDelete A new theory of causation based on probability distribution determinism   from philsciWed… Read more →

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The Great Loop: From Conformal Cyclic Cosmology to Aeon Monism   from philsciWed Jan 10 2024 14:24:00 (3 hours)# 1. Le Bihan, Baptiste (2024) The Great Loop: From Conformal Cyclic Cosmology to Aeon Monism. [Preprint] Send To > Keep unreadDelete Physicists’ Views on Scientific Realism   from philsciWed Jan 10 2024 04:13:54 (13 hours)# 2. Henne, Céline and Tomczyk, Hannah and Sperber, Christopher… Read more →

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Relativity and Quantum Theory: Under the Spell of Today’s Paradigms. (arXiv:2312.17693v1 [physics.hist-ph])   from physics.hist-ph by Stefan WeigertMon Jan 01 2024 11:29:57 (5 hours)# 1. Thomas S. Kuhn interprets the development of the (natural) sciences as a specific dynamical process. Periods of piecemeal growth of knowledge based on widely accepted paradigms are interrupted by bursts of revolutionary changes which lead to new paradigms… Read more →