Space Between Philosophy and Physics
A well-known particle physicist’s adage: Ever since the fundamental paper of Wigner on the irreducible representations of the Poincaré group, it has been a (perhaps implicit) definition in physics that an elementary particle…
In quantum mechanics, certain unitary operators have been understood since the time of Wigner in terms of spacetime symmetries. Why? The foundation for this kind of thinking has an interpretive and…
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,…
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.…
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…