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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2020 United KingdomPublisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Werndl, Charlotte; Frigg, Roman;Werndl, Charlotte; Frigg, Roman;Abstract This paper aims to shed light on the relation between Boltzmannian statistical mechanics and Gibbsian statistical mechanics by studying the Mechanical Averaging Principle, which says that, under certain conditions, Boltzmannian equilibrium values and Gibbsian phase averages are approximately equal. What are these conditions? We identify three conditions each of which is individually sufficient (but not necessary) for Boltzmannian equilibrium values to be approximately equal to Gibbsian phase averages: the Khinchin condition, and two conditions that result from two new theorems, the Average Equivalence Theorem and the Cancelling Out Theorem. These conditions are not trivially satisfied, and there are core models of statistical mechanics, the six-vertex model and the Ising model, in which they can fail.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2020Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Del Santo, Flavio;Del Santo, Flavio;Karl Popper published, in 1968, a paper that allegedly found a flaw in a very influential article of Birkhoff and von Neumann, which pioneered the field of "quantum logic". Nevertheless, nobody rebutted Popper's criticism in print for several years. This has been called in the historiographical literature an "unsolved historical issue". Although Popper's proposal turned out to be merely based on misinterpretations and was eventually abandoned by the author himself, this paper aims at providing a resolution to such historical open issues. I show that (i) Popper's paper was just the tip of an iceberg of a much vaster campaign conducted by Popper against quantum logic (which encompassed several more unpublished papers that I retrieved); and (ii) that Popper's paper stimulated a heated debate that remained however confined within private correspondence. Comment: 17 pages, 1 table. Contains the reproduction of an unpublished rebut to Popper's 1968 paper on quantum logic (as figures in Appendix). Accepted for publication in Studies on History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen bronze 4 citations 4 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!more_vert Studies in History a... arrow_drop_down arXiv.org e-Print ArchiveOther literature type . Preprint . 2019Data sources: arXiv.org e-Print ArchiveStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern PhysicsArticle . 2020 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefhttps://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv...Article . 2019License: arXiv Non-Exclusive DistributionData sources: Dataciteadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publication2020Authors: Sophie Ritson;Sophie Ritson;Abtract In this paper, ‘novelty’ is explored through a recent historical episode from high energy experimental physics to offer an understanding of novelty as disruption. I call this the ‘750 GeV episode’, an episode where two Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments, CMS and ATLAS, each independently observed indications of a new resonance at approximately 750 GeV. With further data collection, the initial excess was determined to be a statistical fluctuation. The approach taken, in the analysis of interviews conducted with physicists who were involved in the ‘750 GeV episode’, is to consider novelty as a valued difference. Following this conceptually driven approach, disambiguate between several notions of novelty through the identification of varied differences. This disambiguation is achieved through exploring differences expressed in comparison to varied expressions of the standard model, and through exploring varied ‘types’ of difference (properties and entities) to introduce disruptive exploratory experimentation, a complementary understanding ‘exploratory experimentation’ (Elliott, 2007; Steinle, 1997, 2002). I show that the kinds of novelty framed as most valuable are those that violate expectations and are difficult to incorporate into the existing structures of knowledge. In such instances, disruption to the existing ontology or ways of knowing is valued. This positive appraisal of disruption, and contradiction over confirmation, is considered in the recent context of high-energy physics, where several physicists have claimed that there is a lack of promising directions for the future, or even that the field is in a ‘crisis’. I show that the role of disruption explains the differences between the differing notions of novelty. Furthermore, I show that the positive appraisal of disruption is based on forward looking assessments of future fertility, or heuristic appraisal (Nickles, 1989, 2006). Within the context of concerns of a lack of available promising future directions, disruption becomes a generator of alternative futures.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen hybrid 8 citations 8 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert Studies in History a... arrow_drop_down Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics; OpenAPC Global InitiativeArticle . Conference object . 2020 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2019Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Del Santo, Flavio;Del Santo, Flavio;It is not very well known that the philosopher Karl Popper has been one of the foremost critics of the orthodox interpretation of quantum physics for about six decades. This paper reconstructs in detail most of Popper's activities on foundations of quantum mechanics (FQM) in the period of 1950s and 1960s, when his involvement in the community of quantum physicists became extensive and quite influential. Thanks to unpublished documents and correspondence, it is now possible to shed new light on Popper's central - though neglected - role in this "thought collective" of physicists concerned with FQM, and on the intellectual relationships that Popper established in this context with some of the protagonists of the debate over quantum physics (such as David Bohm, Alfed Land\'e and Henry Margenau, among many others). Foundations of quantum mechanics represented in those years also the initial ground for the embittering controversy between Popper and perhaps his most notable former student, Paul Feyerabend. I present here novel elements to further understand the origin of their troubled relationship. Comment: 18 pages. Revised version. Accepted for publication in "Studies on History and Philosophy of Modern Physics"
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen bronze 9 citations 9 popularity Top 10% influence Top 10% impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert arXiv.org e-Print Ar... arrow_drop_down arXiv.org e-Print ArchiveOther literature type . Preprint . 2018Data sources: arXiv.org e-Print ArchiveStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern PhysicsArticle . 2019 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefhttps://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv...Article . 2018License: arXiv Non-Exclusive DistributionData sources: Dataciteadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2018Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Del Santo, Flavio;Del Santo, Flavio;I present the reconstruction of the involvement of Karl Popper in the community of physicists concerned with foundations of quantum mechanics, in the 1980s. At that time Popper gave active contribution to the research in physics, of which the most significant is a new version of the EPR thought experiment, alleged to test different interpretations of quantum mechanics. The genesis of such an experiment is reconstructed in detail, and an unpublished letter by Popper is reproduced in the present paper to show that he formulated his thought experiment already two years before its first publication in 1982. The debate stimulated by the proposed experiment as well as Popper's role in the physics community throughout 1980s is here analysed in detail by means of personal correspondence and publications. Comment: 27 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in 'Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics'
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen bronze 7 citations 7 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!more_vert arXiv.org e-Print Ar... arrow_drop_down arXiv.org e-Print ArchiveOther literature type . Preprint . 2017Data sources: arXiv.org e-Print ArchiveStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern PhysicsArticle . 2018 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefhttps://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv...Article . 2017License: arXiv Non-Exclusive DistributionData sources: Dataciteadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2018Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Philipp Berghofer;Philipp Berghofer;Abstract Ontic structural realism refers to the novel, exciting, and widely discussed basic idea that the structure of physical reality is genuinely relational. In its radical form, the doctrine claims that there are, in fact, no objects but only structure, i.e., relations. More moderate approaches state that objects have only relational but no intrinsic properties. In its most moderate and most tenable form, ontic structural realism assumes that at the most fundamental level of physical reality there are only relational properties. This means that the most fundamental objects only possess relational but no non-reducible intrinsic properties. The present paper will argue that our currently best physics refutes even this most moderate form of ontic structural realism. More precisely, I will claim that 1) according to quantum field theory, the most fundamental objects of matter are quantum fields and not particles, and show that 2) according to the Standard Model, quantum fields have intrinsic non-relational properties.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu9 citations 9 popularity Average influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert Studies in History a... arrow_drop_down Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern PhysicsArticle . 2018 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2017Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Baracca, Angelo; Bergia, Silvio; Del Santo, Flavio;Baracca, Angelo; Bergia, Silvio; Del Santo, Flavio;We present a reconstruction of the studies on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (FQM) carried out in Italy at the turn of the 1960s. Actually, they preceded the revival of the interest of the American physicists towards the FQM around mid-1970s, recently reconstructed by David Kaiser in a book of 2011. An element common to both cases is the role played by the young generation, even though the respective motivations were quite different. In the US they reacted to research cuts after the war in Vietnam, and were inspired by the New Age mood. In Italy the dissatisfaction of the young generations was rooted in the student protests of 1968 and the subsequent labour and social fights, which challenged the role of scientists. The young generations of physicists searched for new scientific approaches and challenged their own scientific knowledge and role. The criticism to the FQM and the perspectives of submitting them to experimental tests were perceived as an innovative research field and this attitude was directly linked to the search for an innovative and radical approach in the history of science. All these initiatives gave rise to booming activity throughout the 1970s, contributing to influence the scientific attitude and the teaching approach. Comment: 24 pages, substantially revised version (October 2016), new paragraphs, new notes and a new subsection (13.2.2.1). Accepted for publication in 'Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics'
Studies in History a... arrow_drop_down arXiv.org e-Print ArchiveOther literature type . Preprint . 2016Data sources: arXiv.org e-Print ArchiveStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern PhysicsArticle . 2017 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2015Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Laurenz Hudetz;Laurenz Hudetz;Causal set theory and the theory of linear structures (which has recently been developed by Tim Maudlin as an alternative to standard topology) share some of their main motivations. In view of that, I raise and answer the question how these two theories are related to each other and to standard topology. I show that causal set theory can be embedded into Maudlin’s more general framework and I characterise what Maudlin’s topological concepts boil down to when applied to discrete linear structures that correspond to causal sets. Moreover, I show that all topological aspects of causal sets that can be described in Maudlin’s theory can also be described in the framework of standard topology. Finally, I discuss why these results are relevant for evaluating Maudlin’s theory. The value of this theory depends crucially on whether it is true that (a) its conceptual framework is as expressive as that of standard topology when it comes to describing well-known continuous as well as discrete models of spacetime and (b) it is even more expressive or fruitful when it comes to analysing topological aspects of discrete structures that are intended as models of spacetime. On the one hand, my theorems support (a): the theory is rich enough to incorporate causal set theory and its definitions of topological notions yield a plausible outcome in the case of causal sets. On the other hand, the results undermine (b): standard topology, too, has the conceptual resources to capture those topological aspects of causal sets that are analysable within Maudlin’s framework. This fact poses a challenge for the proponents of Maudlin’s theory to prove it fruitful.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2015Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Charlotte Werndl; Roman Frigg;Charlotte Werndl; Roman Frigg;In Boltzmannian statistical mechanics macro-states supervene on micro-states. This leads to a partitioning of the state space of a system into regions of macroscopically indistinguishable micro-states. The largest of these regions is singled out as the equilibrium region of the system. What justifies this association? We review currently available answers to this question and find them wanting both for conceptual and for technical reasons. We propose a new conception of equilibrium and prove a mathematical theorem which establishes in full generality -- i.e. without making any assumptions about the system's dynamics or the nature of the interactions between its components -- that the equilibrium macro-region is the largest macro-region. We then turn to the question of the approach to equilibrium, of which there exists no satisfactory general answer so far. In our account, this question is replaced by the question when an equilibrium state exists. We prove another -- again fully general -- theorem providing necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of an equilibrium state. This theorem changes the way in which the question of the approach to equilibrium should be discussed: rather than launching a search for a crucial factor (such as ergodicity or typicality), the focus should be on finding triplets of macro-variables, dynamical conditions, and effective state spaces that satisfy the conditions of the theorem. Comment: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1355219814001233. Volume 49, February 2015, Pages 19-31
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2014Publisher:Elsevier BV Funded by:FWF | Theory Assessment in Stri...FWF| Theory Assessment in String Theory and Cosmic InflationAuthors: Richard Dawid; Karim P. Y. Thébault;Richard Dawid; Karim P. Y. Thébault;The subjective Everettian approach to quantum mechanics presented by Deutsch and Wallace fails to constitute an empirically viable theory of quantum phenomena. The decision theoretic implementation of the Born rule realized in this approach provides no basis for rejecting Everettian quantum mechanics in the face of empirical data that contradicts the Born rule. The approach of Greaves and Myrvold, which provides a subjective implementation of the Born rule as well but derives it from empirical data rather than decision theoretic arguments, avoids the problem faced by Deutsch and Wallace and is empirically viable. However, there is good reason to cast doubts on its scientific value.
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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2020 United KingdomPublisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Werndl, Charlotte; Frigg, Roman;Werndl, Charlotte; Frigg, Roman;Abstract This paper aims to shed light on the relation between Boltzmannian statistical mechanics and Gibbsian statistical mechanics by studying the Mechanical Averaging Principle, which says that, under certain conditions, Boltzmannian equilibrium values and Gibbsian phase averages are approximately equal. What are these conditions? We identify three conditions each of which is individually sufficient (but not necessary) for Boltzmannian equilibrium values to be approximately equal to Gibbsian phase averages: the Khinchin condition, and two conditions that result from two new theorems, the Average Equivalence Theorem and the Cancelling Out Theorem. These conditions are not trivially satisfied, and there are core models of statistical mechanics, the six-vertex model and the Ising model, in which they can fail.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2020Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Del Santo, Flavio;Del Santo, Flavio;Karl Popper published, in 1968, a paper that allegedly found a flaw in a very influential article of Birkhoff and von Neumann, which pioneered the field of "quantum logic". Nevertheless, nobody rebutted Popper's criticism in print for several years. This has been called in the historiographical literature an "unsolved historical issue". Although Popper's proposal turned out to be merely based on misinterpretations and was eventually abandoned by the author himself, this paper aims at providing a resolution to such historical open issues. I show that (i) Popper's paper was just the tip of an iceberg of a much vaster campaign conducted by Popper against quantum logic (which encompassed several more unpublished papers that I retrieved); and (ii) that Popper's paper stimulated a heated debate that remained however confined within private correspondence. Comment: 17 pages, 1 table. Contains the reproduction of an unpublished rebut to Popper's 1968 paper on quantum logic (as figures in Appendix). Accepted for publication in Studies on History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publication2020Authors: Sophie Ritson;Sophie Ritson;Abtract In this paper, ‘novelty’ is explored through a recent historical episode from high energy experimental physics to offer an understanding of novelty as disruption. I call this the ‘750 GeV episode’, an episode where two Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments, CMS and ATLAS, each independently observed indications of a new resonance at approximately 750 GeV. With further data collection, the initial excess was determined to be a statistical fluctuation. The approach taken, in the analysis of interviews conducted with physicists who were involved in the ‘750 GeV episode’, is to consider novelty as a valued difference. Following this conceptually driven approach, disambiguate between several notions of novelty through the identification of varied differences. This disambiguation is achieved through exploring differences expressed in comparison to varied expressions of the standard model, and through exploring varied ‘types’ of difference (properties and entities) to introduce disruptive exploratory experimentation, a complementary understanding ‘exploratory experimentation’ (Elliott, 2007; Steinle, 1997, 2002). I show that the kinds of novelty framed as most valuable are those that violate expectations and are difficult to incorporate into the existing structures of knowledge. In such instances, disruption to the existing ontology or ways of knowing is valued. This positive appraisal of disruption, and contradiction over confirmation, is considered in the recent context of high-energy physics, where several physicists have claimed that there is a lack of promising directions for the future, or even that the field is in a ‘crisis’. I show that the role of disruption explains the differences between the differing notions of novelty. Furthermore, I show that the positive appraisal of disruption is based on forward looking assessments of future fertility, or heuristic appraisal (Nickles, 1989, 2006). Within the context of concerns of a lack of available promising future directions, disruption becomes a generator of alternative futures.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2019Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Del Santo, Flavio;Del Santo, Flavio;It is not very well known that the philosopher Karl Popper has been one of the foremost critics of the orthodox interpretation of quantum physics for about six decades. This paper reconstructs in detail most of Popper's activities on foundations of quantum mechanics (FQM) in the period of 1950s and 1960s, when his involvement in the community of quantum physicists became extensive and quite influential. Thanks to unpublished documents and correspondence, it is now possible to shed new light on Popper's central - though neglected - role in this "thought collective" of physicists concerned with FQM, and on the intellectual relationships that Popper established in this context with some of the protagonists of the debate over quantum physics (such as David Bohm, Alfed Land\'e and Henry Margenau, among many others). Foundations of quantum mechanics represented in those years also the initial ground for the embittering controversy between Popper and perhaps his most notable former student, Paul Feyerabend. I present here novel elements to further understand the origin of their troubled relationship. Comment: 18 pages. Revised version. Accepted for publication in "Studies on History and Philosophy of Modern Physics"
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen bronze 9 citations 9 popularity Top 10% influence Top 10% impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert arXiv.org e-Print Ar... arrow_drop_down arXiv.org e-Print ArchiveOther literature type . Preprint . 2018Data sources: arXiv.org e-Print ArchiveStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern PhysicsArticle . 2019 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefhttps://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv...Article . 2018License: arXiv Non-Exclusive DistributionData sources: Dataciteadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2018Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Del Santo, Flavio;Del Santo, Flavio;I present the reconstruction of the involvement of Karl Popper in the community of physicists concerned with foundations of quantum mechanics, in the 1980s. At that time Popper gave active contribution to the research in physics, of which the most significant is a new version of the EPR thought experiment, alleged to test different interpretations of quantum mechanics. The genesis of such an experiment is reconstructed in detail, and an unpublished letter by Popper is reproduced in the present paper to show that he formulated his thought experiment already two years before its first publication in 1982. The debate stimulated by the proposed experiment as well as Popper's role in the physics community throughout 1980s is here analysed in detail by means of personal correspondence and publications. Comment: 27 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in 'Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics'
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2018Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Philipp Berghofer;Philipp Berghofer;Abstract Ontic structural realism refers to the novel, exciting, and widely discussed basic idea that the structure of physical reality is genuinely relational. In its radical form, the doctrine claims that there are, in fact, no objects but only structure, i.e., relations. More moderate approaches state that objects have only relational but no intrinsic properties. In its most moderate and most tenable form, ontic structural realism assumes that at the most fundamental level of physical reality there are only relational properties. This means that the most fundamental objects only possess relational but no non-reducible intrinsic properties. The present paper will argue that our currently best physics refutes even this most moderate form of ontic structural realism. More precisely, I will claim that 1) according to quantum field theory, the most fundamental objects of matter are quantum fields and not particles, and show that 2) according to the Standard Model, quantum fields have intrinsic non-relational properties.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu9 citations 9 popularity Average influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert Studies in History a... arrow_drop_down Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern PhysicsArticle . 2018 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2017Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Baracca, Angelo; Bergia, Silvio; Del Santo, Flavio;Baracca, Angelo; Bergia, Silvio; Del Santo, Flavio;We present a reconstruction of the studies on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (FQM) carried out in Italy at the turn of the 1960s. Actually, they preceded the revival of the interest of the American physicists towards the FQM around mid-1970s, recently reconstructed by David Kaiser in a book of 2011. An element common to both cases is the role played by the young generation, even though the respective motivations were quite different. In the US they reacted to research cuts after the war in Vietnam, and were inspired by the New Age mood. In Italy the dissatisfaction of the young generations was rooted in the student protests of 1968 and the subsequent labour and social fights, which challenged the role of scientists. The young generations of physicists searched for new scientific approaches and challenged their own scientific knowledge and role. The criticism to the FQM and the perspectives of submitting them to experimental tests were perceived as an innovative research field and this attitude was directly linked to the search for an innovative and radical approach in the history of science. All these initiatives gave rise to booming activity throughout the 1970s, contributing to influence the scientific attitude and the teaching approach. Comment: 24 pages, substantially revised version (October 2016), new paragraphs, new notes and a new subsection (13.2.2.1). Accepted for publication in 'Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics'
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2015Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Laurenz Hudetz;Laurenz Hudetz;Causal set theory and the theory of linear structures (which has recently been developed by Tim Maudlin as an alternative to standard topology) share some of their main motivations. In view of that, I raise and answer the question how these two theories are related to each other and to standard topology. I show that causal set theory can be embedded into Maudlin’s more general framework and I characterise what Maudlin’s topological concepts boil down to when applied to discrete linear structures that correspond to causal sets. Moreover, I show that all topological aspects of causal sets that can be described in Maudlin’s theory can also be described in the framework of standard topology. Finally, I discuss why these results are relevant for evaluating Maudlin’s theory. The value of this theory depends crucially on whether it is true that (a) its conceptual framework is as expressive as that of standard topology when it comes to describing well-known continuous as well as discrete models of spacetime and (b) it is even more expressive or fruitful when it comes to analysing topological aspects of discrete structures that are intended as models of spacetime. On the one hand, my theorems support (a): the theory is rich enough to incorporate causal set theory and its definitions of topological notions yield a plausible outcome in the case of causal sets. On the other hand, the results undermine (b): standard topology, too, has the conceptual resources to capture those topological aspects of causal sets that are analysable within Maudlin’s framework. This fact poses a challenge for the proponents of Maudlin’s theory to prove it fruitful.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2015Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Charlotte Werndl; Roman Frigg;Charlotte Werndl; Roman Frigg;In Boltzmannian statistical mechanics macro-states supervene on micro-states. This leads to a partitioning of the state space of a system into regions of macroscopically indistinguishable micro-states. The largest of these regions is singled out as the equilibrium region of the system. What justifies this association? We review currently available answers to this question and find them wanting both for conceptual and for technical reasons. We propose a new conception of equilibrium and prove a mathematical theorem which establishes in full generality -- i.e. without making any assumptions about the system's dynamics or the nature of the interactions between its components -- that the equilibrium macro-region is the largest macro-region. We then turn to the question of the approach to equilibrium, of which there exists no satisfactory general answer so far. In our account, this question is replaced by the question when an equilibrium state exists. We prove another -- again fully general -- theorem providing necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of an equilibrium state. This theorem changes the way in which the question of the approach to equilibrium should be discussed: rather than launching a search for a crucial factor (such as ergodicity or typicality), the focus should be on finding triplets of macro-variables, dynamical conditions, and effective state spaces that satisfy the conditions of the theorem. Comment: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1355219814001233. Volume 49, February 2015, Pages 19-31
arXiv.org e-Print Ar... arrow_drop_down arXiv.org e-Print ArchiveOther literature type . Preprint . 2015Data sources: arXiv.org e-Print ArchiveStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern PhysicsArticle . 2015 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefhttps://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv...Article . 2015License: arXiv Non-Exclusive DistributionData sources: Dataciteadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen bronze 22 citations 22 popularity Top 10% influence Top 10% impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert arXiv.org e-Print Ar... arrow_drop_down arXiv.org e-Print ArchiveOther literature type . Preprint . 2015Data sources: arXiv.org e-Print ArchiveStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern PhysicsArticle . 2015 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefhttps://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv...Article . 2015License: arXiv Non-Exclusive DistributionData sources: Dataciteadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2014Publisher:Elsevier BV Funded by:FWF | Theory Assessment in Stri...FWF| Theory Assessment in String Theory and Cosmic InflationAuthors: Richard Dawid; Karim P. Y. Thébault;Richard Dawid; Karim P. Y. Thébault;The subjective Everettian approach to quantum mechanics presented by Deutsch and Wallace fails to constitute an empirically viable theory of quantum phenomena. The decision theoretic implementation of the Born rule realized in this approach provides no basis for rejecting Everettian quantum mechanics in the face of empirical data that contradicts the Born rule. The approach of Greaves and Myrvold, which provides a subjective implementation of the Born rule as well but derives it from empirical data rather than decision theoretic arguments, avoids the problem faced by Deutsch and Wallace and is empirically viable. However, there is good reason to cast doubts on its scientific value.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routesbronze 11 citations 11 popularity Average influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!more_vert Studies in History a... arrow_drop_down Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern PhysicsArticle . 2014 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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