Group Structural Realism (Part 3)
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4Group Structure and Theory Change. Can groups do a better job at surviving theory change than individual objects? Here’s one…
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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4Wigner’s Legacy. Yuval Ne’eman and Shlomo Sternberg have recorded an old particle physicist’s adage: Ever since the fundamental paper of…
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Note: This post later turned into a paper, which turned into a forthcoming article in BJPS. You can read the full preprint here: PhilSci Archive.Part 1 | Part 2 |…
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What does quantum mean? With a new Hollywood blockbuster just out, and containing the word “quantum” in the title, it seems we’d better get to the bottom of this. The…
Read moreAn Enormous Test of Bell’s Inequalities
Nicolas Gisin (and colleagues) have executed an enormous test of the Bell-inequalities! Their experiment will span laboratories in the cities of Geneva, Satigny, and Jussy. I believe that makes it…
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