Which philosophy of physics books are relatively recent (say, post-1980), but still clear classics that every graduate student in the field should at least paw through? Here’s a preliminary list,…
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It wasn’t centuries of successful theories of mechanics, planetary dynamics, and interplanetary travel that confirmed Galilean freefall. Oh no. It was this. Soul Physics is authored by Bryan W. Roberts.…
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The Bell Theorems, together with a collection of experimental results (such as those of Aspect et al.), provide good statistical evidence that quantum theory is “non-local.” Roughly, this means that…
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Answer: exactly the same way positive mass would. That’s unusual, because if you try to push a negative mass, it behaves in surprising ways. While a positive mass will accelerate…
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If you’re new to Soul Physics, try some of our classic posts! The following posts received either a lot of traffic or a lot of comments (or both) in 2009.…
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