The causes of tides The tides are caused by two things. The moon’s gravitational force pulling on the oceans. The sun’s gravitational force pulling on the oceans. An eclipse does not…
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Three merry roads to T-violation
Last year I had a back-and-forth Abhay Ashtekar. It was during a lively conference organised by Emily Grosholz and hosted by the Center for Gravitaiton and the Cosmos where Ashtekar is director. Our discussion…
Read moreBohmian Indeterminism
Bohmian mechanics is not just an “interpretation” of quantum mechanics. It is a radical revision. In this note, I’d like to point out one reason that it’s an implausible revision:…
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I remember that when I first learned the Canonical Commutation Relations in quantum mechanics, they seemed mysterious: I knew I was supposed to view this as a law…
Read morePauli’s Theorem is not a theorem (not as Pauli stated it)
There is a quirk in the literature on time-energy uncertainty. It might have started as a little sloppiness. But it has grown into an error that seems to have spread…
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