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Gauge Symmetries, Symmetry Breaking, and Gauge-Invariant Approaches
Philipp Berghofer, Jordan François, Simon Friederich +4
Gauge symmetries play a central role, both in the mathematical foundations as well as the conceptual construction of modern (particle) physics theories. However, it is yet unclear…
Resolving the observer reference class problem in cosmology
Simon Friederich
The assumption that we are typical observers plays a core role in attempts to make multiverse theories empirically testable. A widely shared worry about this assumption is that it…
Philosophical perspectives on ad hoc hypotheses and the Higgs mechanism
Simon Friederich, Robert V. Harlander, Koray Karaca
We examine physicists' charge of ad hocness against the Higgs mechanism in the standard model of elementary particle physics. We argue that even though this charge never rested on…
Gauge symmetry breaking in gauge theories---In search of clarification
Simon Friederich
The paper investigates the spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetries in gauge theories from a philosophical angle, taking into account the fact that the notion of a spontaneously br…