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Realism and Ontology in Quantum Mechanics and String Theory
Richard Dawid, Guilherme Franzmann
Dualities in physics have challenged traditional forms of scientific realism by undermining the idea that theories describe a unique underlying ontology. In this paper, we develop…
Chronic Incompleteness, Final Theory Claims, and the Lack of Free Parameters in String Theory
Richard Dawid
String theory has not even come close to a complete formulation after half a century of intense research. On the other hand, a number of features of the theory suggest that the the…
On the Empirical Consequences of the AdS/CFT Duality
Radin Dardashti, Richard Dawid, Sean Gryb +1
We provide an analysis of the empirical consequences of the AdS/CFT duality with reference to the application of the duality in a fundamental theory, effective theory and instrumen…
The Significance of Non-Empirical Confirmation in Fundamental Physics
Richard Dawid
In the absence of empirical confirmation, scientists may judge a theory's chances of being viable based on a wide range of arguments. The paper argues that such arguments can diffe…
Holographic Cosmology and its Relevant Degrees of Freedom
Richard Dawid
We reconsider the options for cosmological holography. We suggest that a global and time--symmetric version of the Fischler-Susskind bound is the most natural generalization of the…
A speculative remark on holography
R. Dawid
Holography suggests a considerable reduction of degrees of freedom in theories with gravity. However it seems to be difficult to understand how holography could be realized in a cl…