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Von Neumann's Impossibility Proof: Mathematics in the Service of Rhetorics
Dennis Dieks
According to what has become a standard history of quantum mechanics, in 1932 von Neumann persuaded the physics community that hidden variables are impossible as a matter of princi…
Time Coordinates and Clocks: Einstein's Struggle
Dennis Dieks
In his Autobiographical Notes, Einstein mentioned that on his road to the final theory of general relativity it was a major difficulty to accustom himself to the idea that coordina…
Quantum Mechanics and Perspectivalism
Dennis Dieks
Experimental evidene of the last decades has made the status of "collapses of the wave function" even more shaky than it already was on conceptual grounds: interference effects tur…
Reichenbach's Transcendental Probability
Fedde Benedictus, Dennis Dieks
The aim of this article is twofold. First, we shall review and analyse the Neo-Kantian justification for the application of probabilistic concepts in physics that was defended by H…
Is There a Unique Physical Entropy? Micro versus Macro
Dennis Dieks
Entropy in thermodynamics is an extensive quantity, whereas standard methods in statistical mechanics give rise to a non-extensive expression for the entropy. This discrepancy is o…
Complementarity in the Bohr-Einstein Photon Box
Dennis Dieks, Sander Lam
The photon box thought experiment can be considered a forerunner of the EPR-experiment: by performing suitable measurements on the box it is possible to ``prepare'' the photon, lon…