Twenty years ago now, Jenann Ismael wrote a fascinating little article called “Curie’s Principle” (1997 Synthese), which discussed a symmetry principle due to Pierre Curie: “When certain effects show a…
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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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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…
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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…
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