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Diffeomorphisms restrict observables to global gauge views
The Limitations of the Notion of `Observable' in Diffeomorphism-Invariant Models
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Planck essays retracted by modern rules on old reprints
The Curious Case of Max Planck retracted papers. When past scientific practices meet contemporary publishing norms
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Planck papers retracted under modern duplicate rules
The Curious Case of Max Planck retracted papers. When past scientific practices meet contemporary publishing norms
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Uncertainty principle blocks Maxwell's demon
Maxwell's Demon
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Norms of practice make quantum outcomes objective without ontology
Quantum Measurement without Ontology
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1923 Newtonian estimate gave 49 hours to the Moon
On the Anticipation of Lunar Travel in the Early 20th Century: A Pedagogical Exercise
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Causality split sharpens choice of math and stats methods
Causality and Scientific Inquiry: Lessons from Space Physics and Medical Sciences
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Physicists' survey finds narrow majorities on many big questions
Big Mysteries Survey: Physicists' Views on Cosmology, Black Holes, Quantum Mechanics, and Quantum Gravity
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Decoherence erases Spekkens contextuality past threshold
Classical Limit: Dissipation of Spekkens' Generalised Contextuality under Decoherence
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Depolarizing noise turns Spekkens contextuality classical after threshold
Classical Limit: Dissipation of Spekkens' Generalised Contextuality under Decoherence
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Physics rewards track transformations of viable theory space
Polydoxon Transformations and Scientific Reward in Physics
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Physics rewards track transformations of viable theory sets
Polydoxon Transformations and Scientific Reward in Physics
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Causal definition of decoherence selects histories without states
Decoherence without the state: A causal quantum Darwinist approach
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Habicht 1914 notes tie relativity to Lorentz's moving-body problems
Conrad Habicht 1914 Manuscript on Special Relativity and Einstein 1907 Reframing of the 1905 Theory
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Vishap stone locations indicate unified society in 4000 BC Armenia
Vishap epoch unitary society in Armenian Highlands, c. 4000 BC: data analysis consequences
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Classical action yields only semiclassical quantum solutions
Comment on `On computing quantum waves exactly from classical action'
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Eight mean tropical years differ across ecliptic longitudes
Mean tropical year length at arbitrary ecliptic longitude
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Bell correlations are selection artefacts
Bell Correlations and Selection Bias
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Lorentz contraction is the only shape preserving cavity resonances
Lorentz-FitzGerald Contraction as the Unique Closure Condition for Moving Spherical-Harmonic Cavities
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Dingle's 1972 book claimed relativity is inconsistent
On Dingle's rebuttal of the special theory of relativity
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Fermi's Varenna lectures trace path to quantum computers
The Legacy of Enrico Fermi to Varenna
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Neopositivism yields Clausius inequality from information definition
The principles of neopositivism and the laws of thermodynamics
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1733 eclipse data sets solar radius at 696250 km
Analyses on Wassenius' Report for Total Solar Eclipse in 1733: Quantifications of the Solar Radius and the Earliest Reported Prominences
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Clock ambiguity reaches quantum evolution laws
The clock ambiguity problem: extended or extinguished?
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Reproducible experiments compute definite physical functions
Experiments, Computability, and the Existence of Physical Functions
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Oscillator eigenfunctions map to circles in lens space
The Geometry Underlying the Quantum Harmonic Oscillator
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Einstein Bose gas specific heat formula differs from 2004 version
Comment on "Specific heat of an ideal Bose gas above the Bose condensation temperature," [Am. J. Phys. 72(9), 1193--1194 (2004)]
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Bayesian statistics justifies naturalness without aleatoric uncertainty
It's all in your head -- fine-tuning arguments do not require aleatoric uncertainty
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Black hole paradoxes favor retrocausality for Wigner's Friend
What Do Black Holes Teach Us About Wigner's Friend?
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Current name for neutrinoless double beta decay is accurate
"Neutrinoless double beta decay" is the correct name for neutrinoless double beta decay
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Spacetime emerges from asymmetric projection of non-orientable pre-geometry
The Metric Fossil: Emergent Spacetime from Asymmetric Projection
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Two contextuality definitions reconciled in classicality hierarchy
Warring Contextualities -- Provably Classical vs Provably Nonclassical
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This paper identifies a parallel between consciousness and quantum mechanics in…
Consciousness, Quantum Mechanics, and the Limits of Scientific Objectivism
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Calling it 'neutrinoless' hides matter creation physics
Defining Absence: The Origin of "Neutrinoless" and How it Obscures the Physics of Matter Creation
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Proposed EPR resolution narrows original argument
Comment on arXiv:2604.09826: Discovery of the Solution to the "Einstein--Podolsky--Rosen Paradox"
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Relational QM links collapse to reference self-description limits
Why does the wavefunction 'collapse' in relational approaches to quantum mechanics?
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Vespucci's southern star sightings yield coherent identifications
Amerigo Vespucci and the discovery of the Southern Sky
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Quantum truth values hold only inside context-specific sublattices
Perspectivist Account of Truth-Theoretic Semantics in Quantum Mechanics
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Flaw in EPR reasoning chain resolves the paradox
Discovery of the Solution to the "Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox"
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Physical causal closure lives only in the Causal Stance
Causal Stance
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Life's fine-tuning overdetermined
Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in Biology
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Almagest dated to Hipparchan era by new method
Speed-Error Cross-Correlation Dating of Ancient Star Catalogues, with Application to the Almagest
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Schrödinger equation derived from probability amplitude plus de Broglie relations
Derivation of the Schrodinger equation from fundamental principles
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Poincaré lecture reached print via three channels in 1904-1905
Henri Poincare Saint Louis Lecture of 1904: Early Publication and International Dissemination
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Tibetan calendar reforms span fixes to dynamical models
Possible Reforms of the Tibetan Lunisolar Calendar
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Projection turns omission into the route to scientific invariants
Projection and Invariance in Scientific Explanation
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Unique TPS fails as counterexample to emergence proof
Comment on "On the emergence of preferred structures in quantum theory" by Soulas, Franzmann, and Di Biagio
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Local data cannot reveal if the universe had a beginning
Observational Indistinguishability and the Beginning of the Universe
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Kramers derived the Dirac equation at the same time as Dirac
The Birth of Quantum Mechanics and the Dirac Equation
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Measured distances in gravitational systems grow with distance from center
The Emergence of Measured Geometry in Self-Gravitating Systems