Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics最新文献

Information is Physical: Cross-Perspective Links in Relational Quantum Mechanics 信息是物理的:关系量子力学中的交叉视角链接

Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics Pub Date : 2022-03-24 DOI: 10.31389/pop.8

Emily Adlam, C. Rovelli

引用次数: 26

What's left for the neo-Copenhagen theorist 新哥本哈根理论家还剩下什么呢

Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2019.10.005

Michael Dascal

引用次数: 4

Information causality, the Tsirelson bound, and the ‘being-thus’ of things 信息因果关系，Tsirelson边界，以及事物的“如此存在”

Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2018.05.001

Michael E. Cuffaro

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引用次数: 10

Cartography of the space of theories: An interpretational chart for fields that are both (dark) matter and spacetime 理论空间的制图:既是(暗)物质又是时空的领域的解释性图表

Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2020.08.004

Niels C.M. Martens , Dennis Lehmkuhl

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引用次数: 7

Newtonian methodological abstraction 牛顿抽象方法论

Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2020.04.006

Michael Friedman

引用次数: 0

Wigner's convoluted friends 维格纳那些令人费解的朋友

Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2020.07.001

R. Muciño, E. Okon

引用次数: 9

Definitions more geometrarum and Newton's scholium on space and time 更多的几何定义和牛顿关于空间和时间的理论

Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2020.05.005

Zvi Biener

引用次数: 3

Jump ship, shift gears, or just keep on chugging: Assessing the responses to tensions between theory and evidence in contemporary cosmology 跳槽，换挡，或者只是继续前进:评估对当代宇宙学理论与证据之间紧张关系的反应

Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2020.08.002

Siska De Baerdemaeker , Nora Mills Boyd

引用次数: 8

A stronger Bell argument for (some kind of) parameter dependence (某种)参数依赖性的一个更强的贝尔论证

Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2017.03.002

Paul M. Näger

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引用次数: 1

Is Bananaworld nonlocal? 香蕉世界是非本地的吗?

Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2019.08.001

Allen Stairs

引用次数: 1