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How John Wheeler lost his faith in the law
Alexander S. Blum, Stefano Furlan
In 1972, at a symposium celebrating the 70th birthday of Paul Dirac, John Wheeler proclaimed that "the framework falls down for everything that one has ever called a law of physics…
The state is not abolished, it withers away: how quantum field theory became a theory of scattering
Alexander S. Blum
It is described how quantum field theory went from a theory for calculating the properties of stationary states, in the mold of quantum mechanics, to the scattering-focused theory…
Tokyo Wheeler or the Epistemic Preconditions of the Renaissance of Relativity
Alexander Blum, Dieter Brill
During the period identified as the Rebirth of General Relativity, John Wheeler was instrumental in retrieving the physics of gravity that had become hidden behind the mathematical…
Non-Abelian Discrete Flavor Symmetries from T^2/Z_N Orbifolds
A. Adulpravitchai, A. Blum, M. Lindner
In [1] it was shown how the flavor symmetry A4 (or S4) can arise if the three fermion generations are taken to live on the fixed points of a specific 2-dimensional orbifold. The fl…
Golden Ratio Prediction for Solar Neutrino Mixing
Adisorn Adulpravitchai, Alexander Blum, Werner Rodejohann
It has recently been speculated that the solar neutrino mixing angle is connected to the golden ratio phi. Two such proposals have been made, cot theta_{12} = phi and cos theta_{12…
The Cabibbo Angle in a Supersymmetric D14 Model
Alexander Blum, Claudia Hagedorn
We construct a supersymmetric model with the flavor symmetry D14 in which the CKM matrix element |V_{ud}| can take the value |V_{ud}| =cos (pi/14) = 0.97493 implying that the Cabib…