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The Science Wars: a pox on both their houses
Stephen Boughn
According to physicist David Mermin, the science wars was a series of exchanges between scientists and "sociologists, historians, and literary critics" whom the scientists thought…
A Modest View of the Black Hole Information Paradox
Stephen Boughn
Thirty years ago, John Preskill concluded "that the information loss paradox may well presage a revolution in fundamental physics" and mused that "Conceivably, the puzzle of black…
Time and its arrow: an empiricist's perspective
Stephen Boughn
The nature of time has beguiled philosophers for nearly three millennia. There are myriad types of time including cosmological time, biological time, psychological time, physical t…
Free Will and Quantum Mechanics: Much Ado about Nothing
Stephen Boughn
In a recent series of papers and lectures, John Conway and Simon Kochen presented The Free Will Theorem. "It asserts, roughly, that if indeed we humans have free will, then element…
Birds, Frogs, and the Measurement Problem
Stephen Boughn
Physicists and philosophers alike have pondered the measurement problem in quantum mechanics since the beginning of the theory nearly a century ago. Marcel Reginatto and I (2013) h…
Why Are We Obsessed with "Understanding" Quantum Mechanics?
Stephen Boughn
Richard Feynman famously declared, "I think that I can safely say that nobody really understands quantum mechanics." Sean Carroll lamented the persistence of this sentiment in a re…