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377 reviewed papers in physics.hist-ph · newest first · page 5

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  1. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-15
    Neo-Russellians can reject the anything-begins-anywhere objection

    Daniel Linford · “Without microphysical causation, just anything cannot begin to exist just anywhere”

    2507.11778
  2. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-15
    Dark matter won the 1980s gravity debate on three counts

    Antonis Antoniou · “Why did the dark matter hypothesis supersede modified gravity in the 1980s?”

    2507.11598
  3. physics.soc-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-14
    Long-term future should be philosophy's central task

    Santos E. Moreta Reyes · “La \'Ultima Frontera de La Filosof\'ia: Hacia una S\'intesis de La \'Etica del Futuro a Largo Plazo, el Riesgo Existencial y la Ontolog\'ia Posthumana”

    2507.11568
  4. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-14
    Tolman effect splits temperature into three rival concepts

    Eugene Y. S. Chua +1 · “The Toll of the Tolman Effect: On the Status of Classical Temperature in General Relativity”

    2507.10529
  5. quant-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-14
    New poll: physicists still favor Copenhagen after 25 years

    Petr O. Jedli\v{c}ka +4 · “Has Anything Changed? Tracking Long-Term Interpretational Preferences in Quantum Mechanics”

    2507.09988
  6. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-08
    Matter waves define their own space and time

    Satyanad Kichenassamy (LMR) · “Wave Mechanics and C-equivalence”

    2507.07069
  7. gr-qc arXiv submitted 2025-07-07
    Expanding universe creates particles

    Leonard E. Parker · “The Creation of Particles in an Expanding Universe”

    2507.05372
  8. quant-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-07
    Sequential measurements alone yield quantum mechanics' full formalism

    Piotr Sza\'nkowski +4 · “Phenomenological quantum mechanics: II. Deducing the formalism from experimental observations”

    2507.04812
  9. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-06
    Logic's anti-exceptionalism need not inherit realism

    Jonas R. B. Arenhart +2 · “Disentangling scientific realism from anti-exceptionalism”

    2507.04479
  10. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-06
    Newton's first law was not redundant after all

    Ido Yavetz +1 · “On the independence problem of Newton's first law”

    2507.04282
  11. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-06
    Euclidean geometry forces Newton's first law to stand alone

    Ido Yavetz +1 · “On the independence problem of Newton's first law”

    2507.04282
  12. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-04
    Effective field theories explain by borrowing from deeper physics

    Martin King · “Abstraction, Explanation, and Effective Field Theories”

    2507.03582
  13. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-04
    Ugly physics models are rational to chase right now

    Martin King · “Experiment and the Pursuit of Ugly Models”

    2507.03565
  14. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-04
    Deep-learning anomaly searches can claim real model independence

    Martin King · “Deep Learning and Model Independence”

    2507.03438
  15. econ.GN arXiv submitted 2025-07-02
    AI cannot do the core work of markets

    Craig S Wright · “Epistemic Scarcity: The Economics of Unresolvable Unknowns”

    2507.01483
  16. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-07-01
    Four 1949 letters show Einstein's quantum completeness dilemma

    P. L. Butzer (1) +15 · “The EPR Paradox of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of Four Unpublished Letters between A. Einstein and the Mathematician J. L. B. Cooper”

    2507.11736
  17. quant-ph arXiv submitted 2025-06-30
    Broken information chains force quantum mechanics

    Marcello Poletti · “Observable and Unobservable in Quantum Mechanics”

    2507.00098
  18. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-06-30
    Maxwell fields alone reproduce length contraction and time dilation

    Frederick W. Strauch · “On Bell's dynamical route to special relativity”

    2506.23450
  19. cs.CY arXiv submitted 2025-06-25
    Peer review should be public

    Craig Steven Wright · “Peer Review as Structured Commentary: Immutable Identity, Public Dialogue, and Reproducible Scholarship”

    2506.22497
  20. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-06-23
    16-page pamphlet rebuts Delambre's 'copied Kepler' charge

    Pasquale Tucci · “A Cassini pamphlet against Delambre on lunar libration and other issues”

    2506.18449
  21. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-06-20
    Gurney, first quantum electrochemist, was also tunneling pioneer

    Brian R. Pollard +1 · “The physics, travels, and tribulations of Ronald Wilfrid Gurney”

    2506.17436
  22. gr-qc arXiv submitted 2025-06-20
    New recipe makes semiclassical gravity fully self-consistent

    R. Muci\~no +3 · “Fully Self-Consistent Semiclassical Gravity”

    2506.17149
  23. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-06-20
    Shadow images alone cannot prove a black hole

    Alexander F. Zakharov · “Shadow in the Galactic Center: Theoretical Concept -- Prediction -- Realization”

    2506.16927
  24. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-06-19
    Geometrized physics plus metaphysics forms complete knowledge

    Carlos Desa · “Principio de Contrastibilidad, Geometr\'ia y Sistemas de Conocimiento”

    2506.16441
  25. cond-mat.stat-mech arXiv submitted 2025-06-19
    Rare events can cut local entropy

    Olivier Sire · “Microstates : Do the outliers worth”

    2506.16080
  26. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-06-17
    Bernoulli's 1727 water-flow paper

    Sylvio R. Bistafa · “An Annotated Translation of D. Bernoulli's "A New Theory on the Motion of Waters Through Channels of Any Kind"”

    2506.14905
  27. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-06-17
    Logical qubits are a new kind of entity

    Kamran Majid · “The Metaphysics of Protection: Emergence, Agency, and the Ontological Status of Logical Qubits”

    2507.00023
  28. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-06-15
    Energy is the world's fundamental stuff

    J.E. Horvath +1 · “Energy as a Primitive Ontology for the Physical World”

    2506.12692
  29. hep-ph arXiv submitted 2025-06-12
    The LHC ttbar excess is most plausibly toponium

    John Ellis · “Personal Memories of 50 Years of Quarkonia”

    2506.10643
  30. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-06-09
    A memoir ranks Petrov second only to Lobachevsky

    Yurii Ignat'ev · “From Geometry to Physics -- AZ: touches to the portrait”

    2506.08148
  31. physics.pop-ph arXiv submitted 2025-06-07
    Path-length balance fixes critical radius of fissile sphere

    Steven K. Lamoreaux · “An elementary method to determine the critical mass of a sphere of fissile material based on a separation of neutron transport and nuclear reaction processes”

    2506.06927
  32. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-06-03
    Before Altarelli-Parisi: the 1974 equations were already there

    Giorgio Parisi · “From Bjorken Scaling to Scaling Violations”

    2506.03383
  33. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-06-03
    Boltzmann's H-curve paper translated

    Jae Wan Shim · “A commented translation of Boltzmann's work, "Ueber die sogenannte H-Curve."”

    2506.04262
  34. quant-ph arXiv submitted 2025-05-29
    One quantum state, four incompatible definitions

    Christian de Ronde · “On the Physical Untenability of the Standard Notion of Quantum State”

    2505.23989
  35. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-05-29
    Believe in the multiverse? Yes

    Jeremy Butterfield · “The Multiverse: a Philosophical Introduction”

    2505.23639
  36. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-05-28
    All worlds, all times exist: eternalism meets many-worlds

    Matias Slavov · “Eternalism and Everettian Quantum Mechanics”

    2505.22160
  37. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-05-26
    Landauer's erasure bound is not a law of physics

    Didier Lairez · “Energy and information: a chronicle of hesitations on the role of the observer in physics”

    2509.06957
  38. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-05-26
    Fox's spiritual Einstein rests on shaky quotes

    Galina Weinstein · “How One Quiet Man Became Everyone's Sage: The Spiritual Recasting of Einstein”

    2505.19695
  39. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-05-23
    Ibn Sina's star instrument anticipated the vernier by 500 years

    Rizoi Bakhromzod · “Legacy of Avicenna in Astronomy”

    2505.18219
  40. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-05-21
    Quantum non-individuals need a physical route to ordinary objects

    Raoni Arroyo · “Non-individuality and experience”

    2505.15627
  41. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-05-21
    Rising realism quotient should steer physics beyond the Standard Model

    Johannes Branahl · “Quantum Field Theory Between Rigor and Pragmatism”

    2505.15577
  42. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-05-19
    Dressed variables dissolve the hole argument for fiber bundles

    Philipp Berghofer +2 · “What Price Fiber Bundle Substantivalism? On How to Avoid Holes in Fibers”

    2505.12876
  43. physics.optics arXiv submitted 2025-05-18
    Local-field correction rewrites Clausius-Mossotti and Lorentz-Lorenz

    Jeroen van Duivenbode +2 · “A refinement of the Lorentz local field expression with impact on the Clausius-Mossotti and Lorentz-Lorenz models”

    2506.01993
  44. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-05-17
    Poincaré showed chaos makes probability inevitable in 1906

    Bruce D. Popp · “Poincar\'e on Gibbs and on Probability in Statistical Mechanics”

    2505.12168
  45. cs.LG arXiv submitted 2025-05-16
    Interpretability in science requires mechanism insight

    Conor Rowan +1 · “On the definition and importance of interpretability in scientific machine learning”

    2505.13510
  46. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-05-14
    Einstein's isolation just moved to fancier offices

    Galina Weinstein · “Einstein, Free Creations, and His Worldly Cloister”

    2505.09530
  47. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-05-14
    His instruments made physics a cultural necessity in Palermo

    Aurelio Agliolo Gallitto · “300th anniversary of the birth of Father Eliseo della Concezione: the scientific contribution in the Royal Academy of Studies of Palermo”

    2505.09192
  48. astro-ph.SR arXiv submitted 2025-05-14
    Century-old star velocities still match modern accuracy standards

    Geoffrey W. Marcy +1 · “Trumpler's Radial Velocities of Stars in Galactic Star Clusters”

    2505.16584
  49. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-05-13
    Shape space is a conceptual space

    Antonio Vassallo · “Shape space as a conceptual space”

    2505.08913
  50. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-05-13
    A person persists as a quantum state

    Rodolfo Gambini +1 · “Self-consciousness and personal identity in quantum panprotopsychism”

    2505.11530