History and Philosophy of Physics

Authors and titles for physics.hist-ph in Apr 2024

[1]  arXiv:2404.00020 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Interseções entre a Física e os saberes da tradição ceramista

Authors: Samuel Antonio Silva do Rosario, Carlos Aldemir Farias da Silva

Comments: in Portuguese

Journal-ref: PARADIGMA, v. 45, n. 1, p. e2024021, 2024

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); Physics Education (physics.ed-ph); Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)

[2]  arXiv:2404.00948 [pdf, other]

Title: On the absolute entropy of monatomic bodies

Authors: Pascal Marquet, Max Planck

Comments: 16 pages

Journal-ref: Sitzungsberichte der K\"oniglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Reports of the meetings of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences) Vol.31, p.653-667, 1916

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)

[3]  arXiv:2404.00952 [pdf, other]

Title: The quantum hypothesis for molecules with multiple degrees of freedom; Remarks on the entropy constant of diatomic gases

Authors: Pascal Marquet, Max Planck

Comments: 56 pages, 2 Figures

Journal-ref: Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft (Deliberations of the German Physical Society)", (a):Vol. 17, Number 22, p.407-418 / (b):Vol. 17, Number 22, p.418-419 / (c):Vol. 17, Number 24, p.438-451, 1915

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)

[4]  arXiv:2404.01458 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The ancient Egyptian personification of the Milky Way as the Sky Goddess Nut: an astronomical and cross-cultural analysis

Authors: Or Graur

Comments: 18 pages, 7 figures, preprint of paper published in Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)

[5]  arXiv:2404.02560 [pdf, other]

Title: Richard Kirwan a [United] Irish Men of Science in Europe

Authors: R. Folk

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)

[6]  arXiv:2404.05376 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: E. Amaldi, C. Dilworth, G.P.S. Occhialini on F.G. Houtermans

Authors: Pasquale Tucci

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)

[7]  arXiv:2404.06366 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Did Louis de Broglie miss the discovery of the Schrödinger equation?

Authors: Aurélien Drezet

Comments: submitted for a special issue of the Annals of the Foundation Louis de Broglie

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[8]  arXiv:2404.06566 [pdf, other]

Title: Creative and geometric times in physics, mathematics, logic, and philosophy

Authors: Flavio Del Santo, Nicolas Gisin

Comments: 10 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[9]  arXiv:2404.08560 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A dual concept of the angle in mathematics and practice

Authors: Savely G. Karshenboim

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); History and Overview (math.HO)

[10]  arXiv:2404.08779 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Founding the First Chemistry Laboratory in Russia: Mikhail Lomonosov's Project

Authors: Robert P. Crease, Vladimir Shiltsev

Comments: 32 pages, 6 Figs; submitted for publication in "Physics in Perspective"

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)

[11]  arXiv:2404.10028 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Black Hole Idealization Paradox

Authors: Dominic Ryder

Comments: 29 pages, 7 figures, preprint (under review)

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[12]  arXiv:2404.11386 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The emergence of spacetime: what role for functionalism?

Authors: Emilia Margoni, Daniele Oriti

Comments: 20 pages

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[13]  arXiv:2404.12156 [pdf, other]

Title: The birth of StatPhys: The 1949 Florence conference at the juncture of post-WWII reconstruction of national and international physics

Authors: Roberto Lalli, Paolo Politi

Comments: 40 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables. Corrected two important misprints

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)

[14]  arXiv:2404.12248 [pdf, other]

Title: The quantum gravity seeds for laws of nature

Authors: Vincent Lam, Daniele Oriti

Comments: 19 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[15]  arXiv:2404.14891 [pdf, other]

Title: Equivalence Relations in Quantum Theory: An Objective Account of Bases and Factorizations

Authors: Christian de Ronde, Raimundo Fernandez Moujan, Cesar Massri

Comments: 19 pages

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[16]  arXiv:2404.15456 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Gauge Invariance through Gauge Fixing

Authors: David Wallace

Comments: 19 pages. Updated due to initial typo in title

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[17]  arXiv:2404.17449 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: On the Meaning of Local Symmetries: Epistemic-Ontological Dialectics

Authors: Jordan François, Lucrezia Ravera

Comments: 21 pages

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Differential Geometry (math.DG)

[18]  arXiv:2404.17724 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Mikhail Lomonosov: Oration on the Birth of Metals by Earth's Tremor

Authors: Mikhail Lomonosov, Vladimir Shiltsev

Comments: 21 pages, 1 figure

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)

[19]  arXiv:2404.18018 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Mikhail Lomonosov: Oration on Benefits of Chemistry

Authors: Mikhail Lomonosov, Vladimir Shiltsev

Comments: 15 pages, 1 figure

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)

[20]  arXiv:2404.18250 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Mikhail Lomonosov: Oration on the Origin of Light

Authors: Mikhail Lomonosov, Vladimir Shiltsev

Comments: 22 pages, 1 figure

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)

[21]  arXiv:2404.18307 [pdf, other]

Title: Stagnant Lakatosian Research Programmes

Authors: Johannes Branahl

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)

[22]  arXiv:2404.18582 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Dressing vs. Fixing: On How to Extract and Interpret Gauge-Invariant Content

Authors: Philipp Berghofer, Jordan François

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[23]  arXiv:2404.18885 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Mikhail Lomonosov: Discourse on Greater Accuracy of Navigation

Authors: Mikahil Lomonosov, Vladimir Shiltsev

Comments: 45 pages, 28 figures

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)

[24]  arXiv:2404.01305 (cross-list from physics.flu-dyn) [pdf, other]

Title: An English Translation of Gröbli's Ph.D. Dissertation: "Specielle Probleme über die Bewegung geradliniger paralleler Wirbelfäden"

Authors: Roy H. Goodman

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD); Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI); History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)

[25]  arXiv:2404.01410 (cross-list from physics.ed-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Un esercizio di storia della scienza: misurare i periodi dei satelliti galileiani di Giove con il Sidereus Nuncius

Authors: Davide Neri

Comments: 6 pages, in Italian language, 4 figures

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph); History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)