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Aesthetic Motivation in Quantum Physics: Past and Present
Henrik Zinkernagel
This essay explores the relations between aesthetics and motivation, primarily in quantum physics, focusing on the notions of play, beauty, and the joy of insight. The motivating r…
Limits of time in cosmology
Svend E. Rugh, Henrik Zinkernagel
We provide a discussion of some main ideas in our project about the physical foundation of the time concept in cosmology. It is standard to point to the Planck scale (located at $\…
Niels Bohr on the wave function and the classical/quantum divide
Henrik Zinkernagel
It is well known that Niels Bohr insisted on the necessity of classical concepts in the account of quantum phenomena. But there is little consensus concerning his reasons, and what…
Are we living in a quantum world? Bohr and quantum fundamentalism
Henrik Zinkernagel
The spectacular successes of quantum physics have made it a commonplace to assert that we live in a quantum world. This idea seems to imply a kind of "quantum fundamentalism" accor…
Philosophical aspects of modern cosmology
Henrik Zinkernagel
This paper is a short introduction to a special issue on philosophy of cosmology, published in the May 2014 issue of Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. I briefly…
A critical note on time in the multiverse
Svend E. Rugh, Henrik Zinkernagel
In recent analyses of standard, single-universe, cosmology, it was pointed out that specific assumptions regarding the distribution and motion of matter must be made in order to se…