History and Philosophy of Physics

Authors and titles for December 2016

[1] arXiv:1612.00079 (cross-list from physics.hist-ph) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: My Century of Physics Show Chinese title

Title: 我的物理学世纪

Robert J. Finkelstein

Comments: 8 pages

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

[2] arXiv:1612.00676 (cross-list from physics.hist-ph) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: Surveying the Attitudes of Physicists Concerning Foundational Issues of Quantum Mechanics Show Chinese title

Title: 关于量子力学基础问题的物理学家态度调查

Sujeevan Sivasundaram, Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen

Comments: 20 pages, 20 figures

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

[3] arXiv:1612.01338 (cross-list from physics.hist-ph) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: Some rekarks on the early history of the Albert Einstein Institute Show Chinese title

Title: 一些关于阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦研究所早期历史的备注

Hubert Goenner

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

[4] arXiv:1612.01466 (cross-list from physics.hist-ph) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: Against free will in the contemporary natural sciences Show Chinese title

Title: 反对自由意志的当代自然科学

Martin Lopez-Corredoira

Comments: 27 pages, invited chapter in the book "Free Will: Interpretations, Implementations and Assessments", to be published by Nova Science Publ

Journal-ref: In: D. Muench (Ed.), Free Will: Interpretations, Implementations and Assessments, Nova Science Publ., New York, pp. 1--38 (2018)

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

[5] arXiv:1612.02551 (cross-list from physics.hist-ph) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: The golden age of Calcutta physics: Difficulties in reconstructing the history Show Chinese title

Title: 加尔各答物理学的黄金时代：重建历史的困难

Arnab Rai Choudhuri

Comments: 24 pages, invited paper for CU Physics 100 (conference to commemorate the centenary of Physics Department, Calcutta University)

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

[6] arXiv:1612.02959 (cross-list from physics.hist-ph) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: Chasing Individuation: Mathematical Description of Physical Systems Show Chinese title

Title: 追逐个体化：物理系统的数学描述

Federico Zalamea

Comments: Ph.D. Thesis, 350 pages, Universit\'e Paris Diderot (Paris 7) , 23 Nov 2016

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

[7] arXiv:1612.03003 (cross-list from physics.hist-ph) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: Georges Lemaître: Life, Science and Legacy Show Chinese title

Title: 乔治·勒梅特：生平、科学与遗产

Simon Mitton

Comments: Talk given on 11 November 2026 at the Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society

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

[8] arXiv:1612.03062 (cross-list from physics.hist-ph) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: A Look Back at the Ehrenfest Classification. Translation and Commentary of Ehrenfest's 1933 paper introducing the notion of phase transitions of different order Show Chinese title

Title: 回顾埃伦费斯特分类。 翻译和评论埃伦费斯特1933年首次引入不同阶相变概念的论文

Tilman Sauer

Comments: 13pp

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

[9] arXiv:1612.03192 (cross-list from physics.hist-ph) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: Breaking symmetry, breaking ground Show Chinese title

Title: 打破对称，开创先河

Mark Hindmarsh

Comments: Published in J. Phys. A as part of a series of Viewpoints on 50 influential papers, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Physics series. The article is dedicated to Tom, who died while it was being prepared

Journal-ref: J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 49 (2016) 411001

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

[10] arXiv:1612.03283 (cross-list from physics.hist-ph) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: Records of sunspot and aurora activity during 581-959 CE in Chinese official histories in the periods of Suí, Táng, and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Show Chinese title

Title: 581-959年期间隋朝、唐朝以及五代十国时期中国官方历史中关于太阳黑子和极光活动的记录

Harufumi Tamazawa, Akito Davis Kawamura, Hisashi Hayakawa, Asuka Tsukamoto, Hiroaki Isobe, Yusuke Ebihara

Comments: 2016/12/10 accepted for publication in PASJ

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph) ; Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) ; Space Physics (physics.space-ph)

[11] arXiv:1612.05985 (cross-list from physics.hist-ph) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: Royal mausoleums of the Western-Han and of the Song Chinese dynasties: a contextual approach Show Chinese title

Title: 西汉和宋朝中国王朝的皇家陵墓：一种语境方法

Giulio Magli

Comments: Archaeoastronomy/History of astronomy

Journal-ref: Archaeological Research in Asia 15, September 2018, Pages 45-54

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

[12] arXiv:1612.07642 (cross-list from physics.hist-ph) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: Astronomical and Historical Evaluation of Molnar's Solution for the Star of Bethlehem Show Chinese title

Title: 摩尔纳关于伯利恒之星解决方案的天文学和历史评估

Bradley E. Schaefer

Comments: Chapter 4 in the book "The Star of Bethlehem and the Magi", 2015, edited by Peter Barthel and George van Kooten (published by Brill in Leiden). This book has contributions from the conference on the 'Star of Bethlehem', held in Groningen in October 2014

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

[13] arXiv:1612.07779 (cross-list from physics.hist-ph) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: The Ancient Astronomy of Easter Island: The Mamari Tablet Tells (Part 1) Show Chinese title

Title: 复活节岛的古代天文学：玛玛里石板讲述（第一部分）

Sergei Rjabchikov

Comments: Archaeoastronomy/History of astronomy; 12 pages, 16 figures; a few misprints have been corrected

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

[14] arXiv:1612.08908 (cross-list from physics.hist-ph) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: Introducing AstroGen: The Astronomy Genealogy Project Show Chinese title

Title: 介绍AstroGen：天文学家谱项目

Joseph S. Tenn

Comments: 7 pages

Journal-ref: Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 19 (2016) 298-304

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

[15] arXiv:1612.09310 (cross-list from physics.hist-ph) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: La scala dell'energia Show Chinese title

Title: 能量尺度

A. M. Aloisi, P. F. Nali

Comments: 28 pages plus refs. page, 13 figures, 6 effigies, in Italian, re-edited from the version published on Sep. 9, 2005 on the SISSA online magazine "Biblioteca dei 500", ISSN 1722-4306, website "ULISSE - nella rete della scienza", available at http://ulisse.sissa.it/biblioteca/saggio/2005/Ubib050901s002/at_download/file/Ubib050901s002.pdf

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

[16] arXiv:1612.09311 (cross-list from physics.hist-ph) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: Image of Inverted World Tree on the Stone Slab and Vessels of the Bronze Age Show Chinese title

Title: 青铜时代石板和器皿上的倒置世界树图像

L.N. Vodolazhskaya, P.A. Larenok, M.Yu. Nevsky

Comments: archaeoastronomy

Journal-ref: Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies 2016, 4(1), 150-168

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

[17] arXiv:1612.09312 (cross-list from physics.hist-ph) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: The Prototype of Ancient Analemmatic Sundials (Rostov Oblast, Russia) Show Chinese title

Title: 古代日晷原型（俄罗斯罗斯托夫州）

L.N. Vodolazhskaya, P.A. Larenok, M.Yu Nevsky

Journal-ref: Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies 2016, 4(1), 96-116

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

[18] arXiv:1612.09314 (cross-list from physics.hist-ph) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: Kant and Quantum Gravity Show Chinese title

Title: 康德与量子引力

Özge Ekin Gün

Comments: 16 pages, 4 figures

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

[19] arXiv:1612.09498 (cross-list from physics.hist-ph) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: Genesis of general relativity - a concise exposition Show Chinese title

Title: 广义相对论的起源 - 简明阐述

Wei-Tou Ni

Comments: 23 pages, 3 tables, Chapter 2 of the book One Hundred Years of General Relativity: From Genesis and Empirical Foundations to Gravitational Waves, Cosmology and Quantum Gravity, edited by Wei-Tou Ni (World Scientific, Singapore, 2016); IJMPD, 1630004 (2016)

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

[20] arXiv:1612.00003 (cross-list from math-ph) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: Rudolf Haag's legacy of Local Quantum Physics and reminiscences about a cherished teacher and friend Show Chinese title

Title: TO_BE_TRANSLATED: Rudolf Haag's legacy of Local Quantum Physics and reminiscences about a cherished teacher and friend

Bert Schroer

Comments: 54 pages

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

[21] arXiv:1612.01106 (cross-list from astro-ph.SR) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: Historical Auroras in the 990s: Evidence for Great Magnetic Storms Show Chinese title

Title: 990年代的历史极光：大磁暴的证据

Hisashi Hayakawa, Harufumi Tamazawa, Yurina Uchiyama, Yusuke Ebihara, Hiroko Miyahara, Shunsuke Kosaka, Kiyomi Iwahashi, Hiroaki Isobe

Comments: 2016/12/01 accepted for publication in Solar Physics. Due to the matter of license, we cannot show some figures on the preprint version. Please see the published version in Solar Physics for the figures

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) ; History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph) ; Space Physics (physics.space-ph)

[22] arXiv:1612.01590 (cross-list from hep-th) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: Scientific Biography of Stanley Mandelstam, Part I: 1955-1980 Show Chinese title

Title: 斯坦利·曼德尔斯塔姆的科学传记，第一部分：1955-1980

Charles B. Thorn

Comments: 33 pages, Contribution to the Memorial Volume for Stanley Mandelstam (World Scientific, 2017)

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

[23] arXiv:1612.01952 (cross-list from gr-qc) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: Why Our Universe is Comprehensible Show Chinese title

Title: 为何我们的宇宙可以理解

James B. Hartle

Comments: 16 pages 1 figure

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

[24] arXiv:1612.05095 (cross-list from physics.gen-ph) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: Philosophy on time in the natural sciences and the humanities from analytical positions Show Chinese title

Title: 自然科学和人文学科中关于时间的哲学从分析的角度来看

Sergey B. Kulikov

Comments: 9 pages, in Russian

Journal-ref: Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Filosofiya. Sotsiologiya. Politologiya - Tomsk State University Journal of Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science 2021(59), 25-33, 2021

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

[25] arXiv:1612.05292 (cross-list from math.HO) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: Probability, propensity and probabilities of propensities (and of probabilities) Show Chinese title

Title: 概率、倾向性以及倾向性的概率（和概率的概率）

Giulio D'Agostini

Comments: Invited contribution to the proceedings MaxEnt 2016 based on the talk given at the workshop (Ghent, Belgium, 10-15 July 2016), supplemented by work done within the program Probability and Statistics in Forensic Science at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge

Journal-ref: AIP Conference Proceedings 1853, 030001 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4985350

Subjects: History and Overview (math.HO) ; Probability (math.PR) ; Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an) ; History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph) ; Other Statistics (stat.OT)

[26] arXiv:1612.06064 (cross-list from quant-ph) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: Bell's nonlocality in a general nonsignaling case: quantitatively and conceptually Show Chinese title

Title: 贝尔非定域性在一般无信号情况下的表现：定量与概念性

Elena R. Loubenets

Comments: 10 pages, reported at the International Conference "Quantum and Beyond", June 2016, Sweden

Journal-ref: Foundations of Physics, 47(8), 1100-1114 (2017)

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

[27] arXiv:1612.06849 (cross-list from quant-ph) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: Quantum theory from rules on information acquisition Show Chinese title

Title: 从信息获取规则的量子理论

Philipp A Hoehn

Comments: 16 pages, several figures, review of [arXiv:1412.8323, arXiv:1511.01130]. Accepted for publication in the special issue `Quantum information and foundations' in Entropy, Eds. D'Ariano and Perinotti. (Minor clarifications added, e.g. on the notion of state updating.)

Journal-ref: Entropy 19(3), 98 (2017)

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

[28] arXiv:1612.07250 (cross-list from quant-ph) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: Contextuality beyond the Kochen-Specker theorem Show Chinese title

Title: 超越Kochen-Specker定理的上下文性

Ravi Kunjwal

Comments: Introductory chapter contains new material, in particular a proof (w/o using maximal psi-epistemicity) that preparation noncontextuality implies KS-noncontextuality for ontological models of quantum theory. Preliminary results from unpublished work (in Chapter 7) will be substantially updated in a forthcoming paper. Defence talk here: https://goo.gl/b3FUV0

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

[29] arXiv:1612.08734 (cross-list from quant-ph) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: On Quantum Nonunitarity as a Basis for the Second Law of Thermodynamics Show Chinese title

Title: 论量子非幺正性作为热力学第二定律的基础

R. E. Kastner

Comments: Clarification to footnote 5

Journal-ref: Entropy 2017, 19(3)

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