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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…
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…
The Time in Thermal Time
Eugene Y. S. Chua
Preparing general relativity for quantization in the Hamiltonian approach leads to the `problem of time,' rendering the world fundamentally timeless. One proposed solution is the `…
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…
No Time for Time from No-Time
Eugene Y. S. Chua, Craig Callender
Programs in quantum gravity often claim that time emerges from fundamentally timeless physics. In the semiclassical time program time arises only after approximations are taken. He…
Does von Neumann Entropy Correspond to Thermodynamic Entropy?
Eugene Y. S. Chua
Conventional wisdom holds that the von Neumann entropy corresponds to thermodynamic entropy, but Hemmo and Shenker (2006) have recently argued against this view by attacking von Ne…
T Falls Apart: On the Status of Classical Temperature in Relativity
Eugene Y. S. Chua
Taking the formal analogies between black holes and classical thermodynamics seriously seems to first require that classical thermodynamics applies to relativistic regimes. Yet, by…