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That Damned Equation. Rigour, Credit Attribution, and the Wheeler-DeWitt Equation 1962-1967
Alexander S. Blum, Dean Rickles, Karim Thébault
The notion of rigour relevant to the practice of physics is an endogenous one. Theoretical physics has its own internal norms about mathematical practice and notions of legitimate…
On the Quantum Theory of Molecules: Rigour, Idealization, and Uncertainty
Nick Huggett, James Ladyman, Karim P. Y. Thébault
Philosophers have claimed that: (a) Born-Oppenheimer approximation methods for solving molecular Schrödinger equations violate the Heisenberg uncertainty relations; therefore, (b)…
In Search of Cosmic Time: Complete Observables and the Clock Hypothesis
Nicola Bamonti, Karim P. Y. Thébault
This paper considers a new and deeply challenging face of the problem of time in the context of cosmology drawing on the work of Thiemann (2006, 2007). Thiemann argues for a radica…
Decoherence and Probability
Richard Dawid, Karim P. Y. Thébault
One cannot justifiably presuppose the physical salience of structures derived via decoherence theory based upon an entirely uninterpreted use of the quantum formalism. Non-probabil…
Theories Without Models: Uncontrolled Idealizations in Particle Physics
Antonis Antoniou, Karim P. Y. Thébault
The perturbative treatment of realistic quantum field theories, such as quantum electrodynamics, requires the use of mathematical idealizations in the approximation series for scat…
Finding Time for Wheeler-DeWitt Cosmology
Nick Huggett, Karim P. Y. Thébault
We conduct a case study analysis of a proposal for the emergence of time based upon the approximate derivation of three grades of temporal structure within an explicit quantum cosm…
On the Limits of Experimental Knowledge
Peter W. Evans, Karim P. Y. Thébault
To demarcate the limits of experimental knowledge we probe the limits of what might be called an experiment. By appeal to examples of scientific practice from astrophysics and anal…