No Absolute Hierarchy of Quantum Complementarity
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quant-ph updates on arXiv.org / 3h
arXiv:2602.22792v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bohr’s principle of complementarity, prohibiting simultaneous access to certain physical properties within a single experimental arrangement, is considered to be a defining feature of quantum mechanics. It is commonly viewed as inducing an intrinsic hierarchy among incompatible observables: some sets of quantum properties are fundamentally more incom
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quant-ph updates on arXiv.org / 3h
arXiv:2602.22517v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The fact that gravitational environments cannot be shielded (since gravity is universal) makes them of great theoretical interest to decoherence mechanisms and to the quantum-to-classical transition. While past results seemed to indicate that graviton-induced decoherence of spatial superpositions happens only for macroscopic systems, recently it was
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physics.hist-ph updates on arXiv.org / 7d
arXiv:2602.17150v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: I argue that if a special science satisfies certain key assumptions that are familiar from physicalist accounts of the special sciences and from physics, then its causal regularities have an associated notion of entropy, and that this causal entropy cannot decrease from a robust cause to its effect. Due to its analogy with the second laws of thermody
The Emergence of Measured Geometry in Self-Gravitating Systems
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physics.hist-ph updates on arXiv.org / 4d
arXiv:2602.18115v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work investigates the geometrical properties of self-gravitating $N$-body systems from the perspective established by Henri Poincar\’e and Albert Einstein concerning the operational nature of measured geometry. Utilizing recent numerical analyses of central configurations–special equilibrium solutions to the Newtonian $N$-body problem–we unc
Dark Matter in Zwicky’s Cosmology: Towards an Epistemological Reconstruction
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physics.hist-ph updates on arXiv.org / 3d
arXiv:2602.18475v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A new contextualised reading of Fritz Zwicky’s 1933 article ”The redshift of extragalactic nebulae” about the virial analysis of the velocity dispersion of galaxies in the Coma cluster leads to a reconsideration of the traditional discourse on the introduction of dark matter. We argue that this component of matter was not only already on the stage
De-Idealizing De-Idealization: Beyond Full Reversal
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physics.hist-ph updates on arXiv.org / 1d
arXiv:2602.21324v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: There is a question of whether de-idealization is needed for justified use of — for ‘checking’ — idealizations. We argue that the standard philosophical account of de-idealization has become too idealized, but that this does not preclude the possibility of justificatory practices which show how models can be used to make inferences about the world.
No Absolute Hierarchy of Quantum Complementarity
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physics.hist-ph updates on arXiv.org / 17h
arXiv:2602.22792v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bohr’s principle of complementarity, prohibiting simultaneous access to certain physical properties within a single experimental arrangement, is considered to be a defining feature of quantum mechanics. It is commonly viewed as inducing an intrinsic hierarchy among incompatible observables: some sets of quantum properties are fundamentally more inc
Understanding without Consciousness: Quantum Structures and the Autonomy of Meaning
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PhilSci-Archive: No conditions. Results … / 6d
Sassoli de Bianchi, Massimiliano and Sassoli de Bianchi, Luca (2026) . [Preprint]
On Mathematics as the Language of Physics
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PhilSci-Archive: No conditions. Results … / 2d
Jacobs, Caspar (2026) . [Preprint]
No change in Hilbert space fundamentalism
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PhilSci-Archive: No conditions. Results … / 2d
Stoica, Ovidiu Cristinel (2026) . [Preprint]
Trajectory of Probabilities, Probability on Trajectories, and the Stochastic–Quantum Correspondence
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PhilSci-Archive: No conditions. Results … / 4h
Győző, Egri and Gomori, Marton and Gyenis, Balazs and Hofer-Szabó, Gábor (2026) . [Preprint]
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