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Are Rindler Quanta Real? Inequivalent Particle Concepts in Quantum Field Theory [PDF]
, 2000 Philosophical reflection on quantum field theory has tended to focus on how it revises our conception of what a particle is. However, there has been relatively little discussion of the threat to the "reality" of particles posed by the possibility of ...
Halvorson, Hans, Clifton, Rob
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Wilson's Atmospheric Electron Accelerator: A Centennial Perspective
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 9, 16 May 2026.Abstract As of the time of writing this letter, we mark the centennial of Wilson's runaway electrons proposed in 1925. Owing to instrumentation limitations, Wilson and his students could not detect the particles anticipated by theory Chilingarian et al. (2025, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024jd042350).
B. Mailyan, H. Mkrtchyan, G. Karapetyan
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A special relativistic heat engine [PDF]
, 1983 This paper offers a marriage of concepts from both classsical thermodynamics and special relativity, thus forming a new part of modern thermodynamics. The main concepts taken from themodynamics and special relativity are those of a heat engine and E=mc2 ...
William S. Cariens
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Quantum Mechanics on Spacetime I: Spacetime State Realism [PDF]
, 2009 What ontology does realism about the quantum state suggest? The main extant view in contemporary philosophy of physics is wave-function realism. We elaborate the sense in which wave-function realism does provide an ontological picture; and defend it from
Wallace, David +3 more
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Neutron stars and their terrestrial analogues
, 2014 When we consider in detail the behaviour of a fluid consisting of two (or possibly more) interpenetrating components, the likelihood of dynamical instabilities induced by coupling between the two fluids cannot be ignored. The phenomenon is generic to all
Hogg, Michael
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Maxwell's demon through the looking glass [PDF]
, 2007 Mechanical Maxwell's demons, such as Smoluchowski's trapdoor and Feynman's ratchet and pawl need external energy source to operate. If you cease to feed a demon the Second Law of thermodynamics will quickly stop its operation. Nevertheless, if the parity
Silagadze, Zurab
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, 1993 Physicists firmly believe that the differential equations of nature should be hyperbolic so as to exclude action at a distance; yet the equations of irreversible thermodynamics - those of Navier-Stokes and Fourier - are parabolic.
Ruggeri, Tommaso, Müller, Ingo
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A Field Guide to Recent Work on the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics. [PDF]
, 2008 This is an extensive review of recent work on the foundations of statistical ...
Frigg, Roman, Roman Frigg
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Emergence in exact natural science [PDF]
, 1998 The context of an operational description is given by the distinction between what we consider as relevant and what as irrelevant for a particular experiment or observation.
Primas, Hans
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, 2016 Thermodynamics is one of the most effective paradigms in physics, with applications from the tiny scale of molecular engines to the grand scale of stars and black holes.
Chiribella, G
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