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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…
physics.hist-ph2018
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…
physics.hist-ph2018
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…