History and Philosophy of Physics

Growth in Human Group Size as the Cause of Society’s Challenges from Possible Gene Pool Signaling Impact

Authors: Tariq Khan
Comments: 9 Pages.

A short speculative hypothesis is presented implying that many of the ailments or catastrophes of human society could be due to primordial "gene pool" signaling, or due to gene pool signal degradation, as the growth of human social groups far exceeded the gene pool’s capabilities. Humans are considered as components of gene pools where gene pools have a "distributed intelligence" capable of signaling to all of its individual human components. Gene pools may maintain an ability to influence groups or populations, particularly in times of scarcity or extinction, whereby entire beliefs, cultures, strife, propensity toward violence, and individual and group behaviors are influenced. Beyond a certain "group size," or a rate of component change, this gene pool signaling is degraded or even corrupted perhaps leading to otherwise irrational behaviors like wars, genocide, extreme inequality, or paralysis against long term existential threats like climate change.
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Magic Rabbits in Physics and Unspooky Violation of Bell’s Inequality Using Rabbits and Doors

Authors: Georgina Woodward
Comments: 9 Pages. (Note by viXra Admin: Please submit complete paper only)

Extending the thought experiment considered in ‘Explaining why ‘unspooky’ violation of Bell’s inequalities is to be expected’. Looking at how the statistical pattern of matched detection is formed for ‘entangled’ photon pairs encountering polarizers with different angles between their orientations. By using a thought experiment analogy to help with conceptualizing unseen absolute orientations and relations between them. Correcting the description for 45 degree angle of difference between the orientation of the doors, incorrectly described in ‘The trouble with magic rabbits.’ Starting by considering some useful analogy and its shortcoming, and the requirements for a model to agree with experimental findings. The necessary background metaphysical environment in which the physics is happening is given. Schrödinger's cat and Many worlds are mentioned briefly. A possible simplified demonstration is outlined and evaluated. There is additional method added that was absent from ‘The trouble with magic rabbits’.
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Nguyên Lý Tương đối (Galileo's Principle of Relativity)

Authors: Vu Tuan Hiep
Comments: 12 Pages. In Vietnamese (Corrections made by viXra Admin.)

Chúng ta sử dụng những định luật Newton như là những định luật phổ quát cho mọi hiện tượng cơ học, nhưng lại khẳng định trong nguyên lý tương đối rằng những định luật chuyển động là không bất biến qua phép biến đổi Galileo, nghĩa là chúng không mang tính phổ quát trong mọi hệ quy chiếu. Điều này là dễ dàng nhìn ra từ thực nghiệm, nhưng có lẽ đây là một ví dụ về sự hạn chế của phương pháp xây dựng một khẳng định trong vật lý từ cơ sở là thực nghiệm.

We use Newton's laws as universal laws for all mechanical phenomena, but assert in the principle of relativity that the laws of motion are invariant through the Galileo transformation, that is, they not universal in all frames of reference. This is easy to see from experiment, but perhaps this is an example of the limitation of the method of building an assertion in physics from the ground up.
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Penguin Dictionary of Physics, the Fourth Edition, by John Cullerne, and the Graphical Law

Authors: Anindya Kumar Biswas
Comments: 24 Pages. A mistake in plotting BW(c=0.01) has been rectified

We study the Penguin Dictionary of Physics, the fourth edition, by John Cullerne. We draw thenatural logarithm of the number of entries, normalised, starting with a letter vs the natural logarithm of the rank of the letter, normalised. We conclude that the Dictionary can be characterisedby BP(4, βH = 0.01), i.e. the Bethe-Peierls curve in the presence of four nearest neighbours andlittle external magnetic field, H, with βH = 0.01. β is1/(k_B T), where, T is temperature and k_B is the tiny Boltzmann constant.
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Le Défaut Naturel Des Télescopes (The Natural Flaw of Telescopes)

Authors: Jean-Jacques Sainthuille
Comments: 2 Pages. In French

Remontant dans le passé cet article invite à s’interroger sur le risque possible encouru par les télescopes spatiaux.

Going back to the past, this article invites us to question the possible risk incurred by space telescopes.
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The Unspooky Violation of Bell’s Inequalities:

Authors: Georgina Woodward
Comments: 5 Pages.

Examination of the violation of Bell’s inequalities by analogy (improved). The how, why and what Bell’s inequalities require and therefore must sometimes be violated in a universe where things happen rather than just exist. Identifying that what happens via a process is not the same as what is predicted just using prior existent traits. Conclusion and recommendations given for locality, realism and spacetime.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics

The Ideal Recipe vs. Baking Existential cake

Authors: Georgina Woodward
Comments: 3 Pages.

AbstractThis is about creation of an objective model of reality. The ‘missing’ ingredients are identified.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics