5 papers
Relativistic Locality from Electromagnetism to Quantum Field Theory
Eugene Y. S. Chua, Charles T. Sebens
Electromagnetism is the paradigm case of a theory that satisfies relativistic locality. This can be proven by demonstrating that, once the theory's laws are imposed, what is happen…
Physical Coherence and Time's Emergence
Eugene Y. S. Chua
It is often said that time vanishes in quantum gravity. One general approach to quantum gravity accepts this fundamental timelessness but seeks to derive time's emergence at a non-…
De-Idealizing De-Idealization: Beyond Full Reversal
Yichen Luo, Eugene Y. S. Chua
There is a question of whether de-idealization is needed for justified use of -- for 'checking' -- idealizations. We argue that the standard philosophical account of de-idealizatio…
The Toll of the Tolman Effect: On the Status of Classical Temperature in General Relativity
Eugene Y. S. Chua, Craig Callender
The Tolman effect is well-known in relativistic cosmology but rarely discussed outside it. That is surprising because the effect -- that systems extended over a varying gravitation…
Decoherence, Branching, and the Born Rule in a Mixed-State Everettian Multiverse
Eugene Y. S. Chua, Eddy Keming Chen
In Everettian quantum mechanics, justifications for the Born rule appeal to self-locating uncertainty or decision theory. Such justifications have focused exclusively on a pure-sta…