INDEX
Every paper Pith has read and judged, in one searchable index.
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physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-05-13Antikythera zodiac ring used 365 days
Aristeidis Voulgaris +2 · “Reconstructing the Antikythera Mechanism s Central Front dial parts Division and Placement of the Zodiac Dial ring”
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physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-05-13Stellar Graveyard plot sparks imagination
Paul H.W. Disberg · “Imagination and Understanding through Astrophysical Imagery”
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physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-05-13Temporal order is ineliminable
\'Alvaro Mozota Frauca · “Against Radical Relationalism: in Defense of the Ordinal Structure of Time”
2505.08307 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-05-12Believing in science does not force belief in metaphysics
Raoni Arroyo +1 · “Naturalistic Metaphysics and the Parity Thesis: Why Scientific Realism Doesn't Lead to Realism about Metaphysics”
2505.07751 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-05-11Fuerteventura churches point to Easter sunrise and a −14° sky
Maria Florencia Muratore +4 · “On the orientation of historic Christian churches of Fuerteventura: conciliating tradition, winds and topography”
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q-bio.NC arXiv submitted 2025-05-11Perceived 'now' is an interference zone of past and future signals
Carmel Mary Esther A · “Temporal Interception and Present Reconstruction: A Cognitive-Signal Model for Human and AI Decision Making”
2505.09646 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-05-09De Broglie widened the quantum crisis—that solved it
Francisco Caruso +1 · “\`As vezes, solucionar uma crise depende de ampli\'a-la: a contribui\c{c}\~ao de Louis de Broglie \`a F\'isica Qu\^antica”
2505.06421 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-05-08A 1925 paper beat Meissner to perfect diamagnetism
Giulia Venditti +2 · “Something about the Mechanism of Induction Phenomena: The forgotten work of Berta de Haas-Lorentz on diamagnetism in superconductors”
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physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-05-08One 1924 counting argument created quantum statistics
Shreetam Dash +1 · “The Journey from Planck Distribution to Bose Statistics From Classical to Quantum Mechanics and Beyond”
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gr-qc arXiv submitted 2025-05-07Quantum gravity is wanted for theory-internal reasons
Karen Crowther · “Why Do We Want a Theory of Quantum Gravity?”
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physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-05-06Structuralist history turns Einstein into a passive conduit
Galina Weinstein · “Einstein, Evolution of Knowledge, and the Anthropocene: A Critical Reading of J\"urgen Renn's Historiography”
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physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-05-06Spin was invented in 1925 to explain atomic spectra
Francisco Caruso +1 · “Uma breve hist\'oria do spin”
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quant-ph arXiv submitted 2025-04-29Dirac moment becomes state-dependent once self-interaction is included
Charles T. Sebens · “How Anomalous is the Electron's Magnetic Moment?”
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physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-04-29Mentor lineage shapes a scientist's career
Bryan Briones +2 · “The Impact and Influence of Academic Genealogies”
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physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-04-27No, the Hubble tension hasn't killed the standard model of cosmology
Alain Blanchard · “The fallacies of LCDM falsifications”
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physics.optics arXiv submitted 2025-04-26Structured light pushes flat mirrors slightly less than plane waves
Alexander C. Trowbridge +2 · “The Radiation Pressure of Light: historical perspectives and the role of structured light”
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physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-04-25In 1923, Lev Strum made superluminal signals fit relativity
Helge Kragh · “Tachyons Before Tachyons: Lev Strum (1890-1936) and Superluminal Velocities”
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physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-04-24Curved or twisted spacetime? The data cannot tell
Ruward Mulder +1 · “Is spacetime curved? Assessing the underdetermination of general relativity and teleparallel gravity”
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physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-04-24The Higgs mechanism breaks a global symmetry
Silvester G.A. Borsboom +1 · “Global Gauge Symmetry Breaking in the Abelian Higgs Mechanism”
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physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-04-23Wu's 1950 photons were the first controlled entangled pairs
Yu Shi · “Scientific Spirit of Chien-Shiung Wu: From Quantum Entanglement to Parity Nonconservation”
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physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-04-23Einstein–de Haas apparatus found in museum storage
Alfonso San Miguel (ILM) +1 · “Revisiting the Einstein-de Haas experiment: the Amp{\`e}re Museum's hidden treasure”
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physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-04-20Falling bodies do not move inertially
Nicola Bamonti · “Apples Falling, Buckets Rolling, and Why Inertia Keeps Trolling: Inertial Motion is Not Natural Motion”
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astro-ph.EP arXiv submitted 2025-04-17Star-speed and planet-cycle tests date Almagest to 1st century BCE
Carlos Baiget Orts · “Astronomical Refutation of the New Chronology by Fomenko and Nosovsky: The 1151-Year Planetary Cycle and Dating of the Almagest via Speed/Error Correlation”
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physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-03-27Technological understanding splits into three context-based types
Eline de Jong +1 · “A Contextual Approach to Technological Understanding and Its Assessment”
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math-ph arXiv submitted 2025-02-22State space structure sets Yang-Mills physical gauge group
Silvester G.A. Borsboom +1 · “Global Gauge Symmetries and Spatial Asymptotic Boundary Conditions in Yang-Mills Theory”
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physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-02-14Quantizing logic, not states, could yield a simpler quantum calculus
David Wakeham · “A Short History of Rocks: or, How to Invent Quantum Computing”
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physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-02-12Quantum events resist being joined into one coherent story
Sebastian Horvat · “Notes on a future quantum event-ontology”
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physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-02-12Fine-tuning points to God via sheer existence
Adam D. Hincks · “Does a Fine-Tuned Universe Tell Us Anything About God?”
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physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-02-12Mastabat Fara'un is a pyramid
Amelia Carolina Sparavigna · “Orientation of Entrance and Burial Chamber in the Pyramids of the Egyptian Fourth and Fifth Dynasties”
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quant-ph arXiv submitted 2025-02-11Zombies are fine-tuned, and qualia steer quantum outcomes
Adam Brownstein · “On the causal efficacy of qualia: Philosophical zombies are fine-tuned, and implications for the quantum measurement theory”
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physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-02-11Beables need qualia
Adam Brownstein · “On the distinction between beables and qualia”
2502.07705 -
quant-ph arXiv submitted 2025-02-10Quantum facts can be absolute even if quantum states are relative
Emily Adlam · “What Kind of Relationality does Quantum Mechanics Exhibit?”
2502.06991 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-02-101950: Wu's experiment made the first entangled photons
Yu Shi · “Chien-Shiung Wu as the experimental pioneer in quantum entanglement: a 2022 note”
2502.06458 -
astro-ph.IM arXiv submitted 2025-02-05Three instruments end Pulkovo's 300-year meridian-circle era
Vladimir Yershov · “The Last Meridian Circles of Pulkovo Observatory”
2502.03583 -
gr-qc arXiv submitted 2025-02-05Quantum cosmology loses time
\'Alvaro Mozota Frauca · “Quantum Cosmology and the Age of the Universe”
2502.03075 -
hep-lat arXiv submitted 2025-02-05A physicist claims he wrote the Wilson action in 1972
Jan Smit · “A confederacy of anomalies”
2502.03066 -
math-ph arXiv submitted 2025-02-03Partial addition alone gives physical dimensions and units
Georgy Alymov · “Physical quantities as a partially additive field”
2502.00967 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-01-27Galileo's rejected longitude method redrew France
Alessandro de Angelis · “Galileo Galilei and Satellite Navigation”
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physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-01-25Drop bivalence? Not needed for quantum indeterminacy
Claudio Calosi +1 · “Bivalent Quantum Indeterminacy”
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hep-ph arXiv submitted 2025-01-24Instanton vacuum nearly solved hadron structure
Mirzayusuf Musakhanov · “My friends and my path in physics”
2501.14842 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-01-23A 1980s light-front formula now anchors chiral higher spin gravity
Anders K H Bengtsson · “Antiquity, Dark Ages and Renaissance of Light-Front Higher Spin Theory”
2501.13674 -
physics.class-ph arXiv submitted 2025-01-23Continuity alone forces Maxwell's field equations
C. Baumgarten · “On the "Universality" of the Form of Maxwell's Equations”
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hep-ph arXiv submitted 2025-01-22Review: 1977 Altarelli–Parisi paper proved QCD factorization
Stefano Forte · “Asymptotic Freedom in Parton Language: the Birth of Perturbative QCD”
2501.13158 -
quant-ph arXiv submitted 2025-01-22Indefinite causal order can yield temporal nonlocality
Laurie Letertre · “Temporal nonlocality from indefinite causal orders”
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physics.ed-ph arXiv submitted 2025-01-21Textbooks have told a false story about Cavendish for a century
Jonas R Persson · “History and presentation of the Cavendish experiment in textbooks in the 20th century”
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physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-01-20Quantum mechanics emerges from agents maximizing utility
Krzysztof Sienicki · “Algorithmic Idealism III: "Algorithmic State" Formulation of Quantum Mechanics”
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physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-01-19Black hole evaporation arguments don't yet apply to real black holes
Eugene Y. S. Chua · “Not Quite Killing It: Black Hole Evaporation, Global Energy, and De-Idealization”
2501.11142 -
quant-ph arXiv submitted 2025-01-19Backward time arrows reproduce EPR correlations without signaling
Simon Friederich · “Reproducing EPR correlations without superluminal signalling: backward conditional probabilities and Statistical Independence”
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physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2025-01-10Cosmology may never know what its dark ingredients are
Pedro G. Ferreira +2 · “The Spectre of Underdetermination in Modern Cosmology”
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physics.soc-ph arXiv submitted 2025-01-10Replication crisis in physics is cultural
Hope Bretscher +1 · “The Waters We Swim In: Replicability and the Evolution of Scientific Norms”
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