Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (40)

The case of early Copernicanism: Epistemic luck vs. predictivist vindication 

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Fri Sep 29 2023 02:38:24 (1 day)

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Crupi, Vincenzo (2023) The case of early Copernicanism: Epistemic luck vs. predictivist vindication. [Preprint]

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A quadrilemma for theories of consciousness 

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Fri Sep 29 2023 02:37:26 (1 day)

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List, Christian (2023) A quadrilemma for theories of consciousness. [Preprint]

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Some remarks on recent formalist responses to the Hole Argument 

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Fri Sep 29 2023 02:32:43 (1 day)

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Menon, Tushar and Read, James (2023) Some remarks on recent formalist responses to the Hole Argument. [Preprint]

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On algebraic object naturalism and metaphysical indeterminacy in quantum mechanics 

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Fri Sep 29 2023 02:32:17 (1 day)

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Menon, Tushar (2023) On algebraic object naturalism and metaphysical indeterminacy in quantum mechanics. [Preprint]

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Dynamical Substantivalism 

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Fri Sep 29 2023 02:31:41 (1 day)

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Menon, Tushar (2023) Dynamical Substantivalism. [Preprint]

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Spacetime functionalists should be inferentialists 

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Fri Sep 29 2023 02:30:48 (1 day)

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Menon, Tushar (2023) Spacetime functionalists should be inferentialists. [Preprint]

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Robustness and Dark-Matter Observation 

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Fri Sep 29 2023 02:26:27 (1 day)

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Antoniou, Antonis (2023) Robustness and Dark-Matter Observation. Philosophy of Science, 90 (3). pp. 629-647.

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Unpacking Black Hole Complementarity 

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Fri Sep 29 2023 02:21:46 (1 day)

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Muthukrishnan, Siddharth (2023) Unpacking Black Hole Complementarity. [Preprint]

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Contemporary Cosmology from Lakatos’ viewpoint. (arXiv:2309.15695v1 [physics.hist-ph]) 

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J.E. Horvath (IAG-USP, São Paulo, Brazil)

Thu Sep 28 2023 09:26:46 (2 days)

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An analysis of contemporary Cosmology is presented, with the aim of identifying the elements present in it according to the scientific program structure created by I. Lakatos. We look at some modern controversies from this point of view and clarify the meaning of issues related to them within this context.

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Detlef D\”urr, arrival-time distributions, and spin in Bohmian mechanics: Personal recollections and state-of-the-art. (arXiv:2309.15815v1 [physics.hist-ph]) 

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Siddhant Das

Thu Sep 28 2023 09:26:45 (2 days)

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I recount here my association with Prof. Detlef D\”urr leading to our memorable research collaboration on arrival-time distributions in quantum mechanics. He influenced my life, both personally and professionally, as few others have or ever will. Detlef is my role model for what a brilliant, discerning scientist, academic, and mentor can and should be.

The “arrival-time problem” in quantum mechanics is examined selectively, with an emphasis on the arrival-time distributions of Bohmian particles. In what follows, the “exotic” Bohmian arrival-time distributions of spin-polarized electrons accelerating down a cylindrical waveguide [S. Das and D. D\”urr, Sci. Rep. 9: 2242 (2019)], and some variations thereof are discussed. I shall not go into the mathematical treatment more than is necessary to spell out the key results. The intention is to document the circumstances and motivations underlying the ideas.

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The M\”obius game and other Bell tests for relativity. (arXiv:2309.15752v1 [gr-qc]) 

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Eleftherios-Ermis Tselentis, Ämin Baumeler

Thu Sep 28 2023 09:26:28 (2 days)

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We derive multiparty games that, if the winning chance exceeds a certain limit, prove the incompatibility of the parties’ causal relations with any partial order. This, in turn, means that the parties exert a back-action on the causal relations; the causal relations are dynamical. The games turn out to be representable by directed graphs, for instance by an orientation of the M\”obius ladder. We discuss these games as device-independent tests of spacetime’s dynamical nature in general relativity. To do so, we design a relativistic setting where, in the Minkowski spacetime, the winning chance is bound to the limits. In contrast, we find otherwise tame processes with classical control of causal order that win the games deterministically. These suggest a violation of the bounds in gravitational implementations. We obtain these games by uncovering a “pairwise central symmetry” of the correlations in question. This symmetry allows us to recycle the facets of the acyclic subgraph polytope studied by Gr\”otschel, J\”unger, and Reinelt in the mid-80s for combinatorial optimization. In addition, we derive multiparty games in a scenario where the polytope dimension grows only linearly in the number of parties. Here, exceeding the limits not only proves the dynamical nature of the causal relations, but also that the correlations are incompatible with any global causal order.

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Bell’s Theorem Begs the Question 

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Wed Sep 27 2023 15:13:37 (2 days)

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Christian, Joy (2023) Bell’s Theorem Begs the Question. [Preprint]

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The Metaphysics of Causation: An Empiricist Critique 

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Wed Sep 27 2023 15:13:05 (2 days)

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Norton, John D (2022) The Metaphysics of Causation: An Empiricist Critique. [Preprint]

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How bad is the postulation of a low entropy initial state of the universe? 

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Tue Sep 26 2023 03:36:27 (4 days)

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Filomeno, Aldo (2023) How bad is the postulation of a low entropy initial state of the universe? [Preprint]

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How clocks define physical time 

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Tue Sep 26 2023 03:27:49 (4 days)

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Evans, Peter W. and Milburn, Gerard J. and Shrapnel, Sally (2023) How clocks define physical time. [Preprint]

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Is superluminal signaling possible in collapse theories of quantum mechanics? 

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Mon Sep 25 2023 08:22:11 (5 days)

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Gao, Shan (2023) Is superluminal signaling possible in collapse theories of quantum mechanics? Foundations of Physics, 53. ISSN 0015-9018

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