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The History of Moral Certainty as the Pre-history of Typicality
This paper investigates the historical origin and ancestors of typicality, which is now a central concept in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics and Bohmian Mechanics. Although Ludwig Boltzmann did not use the ...
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Open AccessIs the Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics ψ-Ontic or ψ-Epistemic?
The ontological models framework distinguishes ψ-ontic from ψ-epistemic wave-functions. It is, in general, quite straightforward to categorize the wave-function of a certain quantum theory. Nevertheless, there h...
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Reviving frequentism
Philosophers now seem to agree that frequentism is an untenable strategy to explain the meaning of probabilities. Nevertheless, I want to revive frequentism, and I will do so by grounding probabilities on typi...
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Understanding physics: ‘What?’, ‘Why?’, and ‘How?’
I want to combine two hitherto largely independent research projects, scientific understanding and mechanistic explanations. Understanding is not only achieved by answering why-questions, that is, by providing...
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Open AccessHow Quantum Mechanics can consistently describe the use of itself
We discuss the no-go theorem of Frauchiger and Renner based on an “extended Wigner’s friend” thought experiment which is supposed to show that any single-world interpretation of quantum mechanics leads to inco...
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The wave-function as a multi-field
It is generally argued that if the wave-function in the de Broglie–Bohm theory is a physical field, it must be a field in configuration space. Nevertheless, it is possible to interpret the wave-function as a m...
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The Effect of Polymeric Excipients on the Physical Properties and Performance of Amorphous Dispersions: Part I, Free Volume and Glass Transition
To investigate the structural effect of polymeric excipients on the behavior of free volume of drug-polymer dispersions in relation to glass transition.
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Anchoring Causal Connections in Physical Concepts
In their paper How Fundamental Physics Represents Causality Andreas Bartels and Daniel Wohlfarth maintain that there is place for causality in General Relativity. Their argument contains two steps: first they sho...
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Measurements and comparison of saltation and pickup velocities in wind tunnel
This work presents experimental results of the pickup velocity measurements for variety of particulate solids. The experiments were carried out in a horizontal wind tunnel. The influence of three initial arran...
