INDEX
Every paper Pith has read and judged, in one searchable index.
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physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-09-25String field theory background independence depends on definitions
Bhanu Narra +2 · “Is string field theory background independent?”
2509.21159 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-09-19Dualities suggest geometric theories that allow emergence
Sebastian De Haro +1 · “Dualities in Physics”
2509.15866 -
quant-ph arXiv submitted 2025-09-12Relational power sets, not particles, define quantum individuals
Christian de Ronde +1 · “A Realist Approach to Quantum Individuality: Against the "Received" and "Alternative" Views”
2509.10680 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-09-11Same equations, two theories: Einstein's derivation stands alone
Galina Weinstein · “Convergences and Divergences: Einstein, Poincar\'e, and Special Relativity”
2509.09361 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-09-07One physicist's six decades made topology central to particle physics
V.P. Nair · “A.P. Balachandran: Living in Physics”
2509.06139 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-09-05Multiverse theories can earn empirical support—if holistic
Baptiste Le Bihan · “Holistic Versus Fragmented Multiverses: Empirical Access via Causal and Grounding Signatures”
2509.04918 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-09-02Einstein hid the algebra in his 1905 relativity paper on purpose
Galina Weinstein · “Einstein's Hidden Scaffolding, with a Glance at Poincar\'e”
2509.02456 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-08-31Recommendation engines drive society toward 'anthropy,' a social entropy
Miguel Vanvlasselaer · “Un avenir commun au sein de la soci\'et\'e num\'erique”
2509.01014 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-08-31Mobile phones can count single photons
Tuck Choy +1 · “From Faraday and Maxwell to Quantum Physics. The later story of the Electromagnetic Vector Potential”
2509.04486 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-08-30The Ising model's two ingredients suffice for long-range order
M\'ario J. de Oliveira · “Origins of the Ising model”
2509.00632 -
gr-qc arXiv submitted 2025-08-30A 1956 decomposition still powers black-hole simulations
Thibault Damour · “Remembering Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat”
2509.00597 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-08-27Coherent perfect absorption was derived in 1962
Denis V. Novitsky · “English translation of the paper "Electromagnetic field inside a plane-parallel layer in the resonant absorption regime" (1962) by A. P. Khapalyuk: Pioneering study on coherent perfect absorption”
2508.19687 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-08-23Carnot's 1824 cycle ratio gave Clausius his entropy
M\'ario Jos\'e de Oliveira · “Reflections of Sadi Carnot”
2508.17027 -
astro-ph.IM arXiv submitted 2025-08-211944 notebook note makes Guido Beck the Homunculus discoverer
Guillermo Abramson · “Gaviola y la estrella m\'as extraordinaria del cielo austral”
2508.15880 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-08-21Von Neumann never blamed consciousness for quantum collapse
Federico Laudisa · “Between Myth and History: von Neumann on Consciousness in Quantum Mechanics”
2508.15871 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-08-20Two kinds of time split the Big Bang's biggest question
Paul Merriam · “A Theory of the Big Bang in McTaggart's Time”
2508.15863 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-08-19Heat death ends time's arrow
Joseph S. Finberg · “Remarks on the Fundamentals of Time oder die Zeitd\"ammerung”
2508.14312 -
physics.soc-ph arXiv submitted 2025-08-15Dragon-stone stelae cluster near water in two altitude bands
Vahe Gurzadyan +1 · “Vishap stelae as cult dedicated prehistoric monuments of Armenian Highlands: data analysis and interpretation”
2508.11324 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-08-121+1=2 counts two ones, not one two
Souvik Ghosh · “One Plus One Equals Two Ones: On Identity, Aggregation, and Counting”
2508.09226 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-08-12Why the whole outruns its parts
Ross H. McKenzie · “Emergence: from physics to biology, sociology, and computer science”
2508.08548 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-08-11Aharonov says the Aharonov-Bohm effect was his idea
Yakir Aharonov +1 · “Theoretical Discovery, Experiment, and Controversy in the Aharonov-Bohm Effect: An Oral History Interview”
2508.08105 -
quant-ph arXiv submitted 2025-08-08Pilot-wave proof hinges on an assumption about information
J. Manero +2 · “A disputable assumption behind the empirical equivalence between pilot-wave theory and standard quantum mechanics”
2508.06667 -
quant-ph arXiv submitted 2025-08-08Arbitrary bijections make generalized calculus scientifically inert
Miko{\l}aj Sienicki +1 · “Comment on "Unifying Aspects of Generalized Calculus"”
2508.06596 -
cs.AI arXiv submitted 2025-08-07Free-energy drive replaces reward engineering for AI agents
Bo Wen · “The Missing Reward: Active Inference in the Era of Experience”
2508.05619 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-08-06Wave function's multi-field is a determinable
Davide Romano · “Multi-field as a determinable”
2508.04933 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-08-05Matter arises where two nothings intersect
Adam Brownstein · “On something and nothing: The interface of two types of nothing”
2508.10006 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-08-05An amateur astronomer mapped the Milky Way as a spiral galaxy in 1900
Pieter C. van der Kruit (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute +2 · “Cornelis Easton:The Milky Way as a spiral galaxy”
2508.03409 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-08-04Quantum indeterminacy makes consciousness central to the universe
Rodolfo Gambini · “Quantum panprotopsychism and a consciousness-centered universe”
2508.04718 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-08-04Newton's First Law is no special case of the Second
Indresh Yadav +1 · “Newtons First Law Is Not a Special Case of the Second Law”
2508.02246 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-08-03Superposition is ambiguity, collapse is contraction, entanglement is resonance
Miko{\l}aj Sienicki +1 · “Beyond the Wavefunction: Qualia Abstraction Language Mechanics and the Grammar of Awareness”
2508.02755 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-08-03A single geometric view explains physics' many dualities
Sebastian De Haro +1 · “The Philosophy and Physics of Duality”
2508.01616 -
math.HO arXiv submitted 2025-07-31Jordan's 1952 book defined the covariant derivative axiomatically
Bernadette Lessel · “Pascual Jordan's "Erweiterte Gravitationstheorie" - A Historical Analysis of its Mathematical Framework”
2507.23758 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-31Strange-metal data back holography
Enrico Cinti +4 · “Holographic Strange Metals for Philosophers and Physicists”
2507.23527 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-30Eight ways the Schwarzschild singularities were read before Penrose
Dennis Lehmkuhl · “The Prediction and Interpretation of Singularities and Black Holes: From Einstein and Schwarzschild to Penrose and Wheeler”
2508.00034 -
quant-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-30Bell experiment falsifies a core causal assumption
Yuhao Wang +1 · “A quantum experiment with joint exogeneity violation”
2507.22747 -
physics.data-an arXiv submitted 2025-07-29Physics benchmark scores AI on insight and surprise
Kristian G. Barman +7 · “Towards a Large Physics Benchmark”
2507.21695 -
gr-qc arXiv submitted 2025-07-29No algorithm can capture all of physics
Mir Faizal +3 · “Consequences of Undecidability in Physics on the Theory of Everything”
2507.22950 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-29High-dimensional wave function realism is antirealism in disguise
Raoni Arroyo +1 · “Antirealism in sheep's clothing: Wave function realism and scientific realism”
2507.21615 -
quant-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-27Stochastic processes can mimic all quantum predictions
Jacob A. Barandes · “Quantum Systems as Indivisible Stochastic Processes”
2507.21192 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-27Properties are just internal views of a relational world
Emily Adlam · “Relational Observables, Quiddities, and Structural Realism”
2507.20313 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-26Physicalism escapes Hempel's dilemma via empirical structure
Balazs Gyenis · “Empirical structure physicalism and realism, Hempel's dilemma, and an optimistic meta-induction”
2507.19834 -
quant-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-25Postselected photons keep counterfactual communication alive
Hatim Salih +3 · “Reply to "Counterfactual communication not achieved yet -- A Comment on Salih et al. (2022)"”
2507.19563 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-23Grue loses once direct measurements must give convex error-boxes
Luigi Scorzato · “A not-too-simple solution to Goodman's new riddle of induction in the age of AI”
2507.17212 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-22Forgotten 1935 Fermi lecture resurfaces with translation
Emanuele Goldoni +1 · “Slow neutrons in Palermo: a forgotten conference by Enrico Fermi”
2507.16928 -
quant-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-20The paper argues entanglement correlations are preselection artifacts
Huw Price +1 · “Taming Entanglement”
2507.15128 -
astro-ph.IM arXiv submitted 2025-07-19Astronomers' 1960s protest shaped the Outer Space Treaty
John C. Barentine · “'Setting Fire to the Last Forest': Project West Ford and the Mobilization of the Astronomical Community 1958-1965”
2507.14714 -
quant-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-19No-go proof: measurement events are observer-relative
Herve Zwirn · “Are Events Absolute?”
2507.14672 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-181957 note identifies 1949 experiment as first entanglement realization
Yu Shi · “Historical origins of quantum entanglement in particle physics”
2507.13582 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-17In 1771, a mathematician designed a 32-observer global weather network
Pascal Marquet · “A translation of the paper "Presentation of some observations that could be made to shed light on Meteorology" by Johann Heinrich Lambert (1771)”
2507.13422 -
quant-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-16Born-Oppenheimer step clashes with quantum uncertainty
Olimpia Lombardi +3 · “What are we talking about when we discuss the Born-Oppenheimer approximation?”
2507.12223