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We Have Never Been Sophisticated
Clara Bradley, James Owen Weatherall
Many philosophers of physics maintain that a physical theory that exhibits (certain kinds of) symmetries is flawed, on the grounds that such theories posit "excess structure". In a…
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Conservation Principles in AQUAL
Clara Bradley, James Owen Weatherall
We consider conservation of momentum in AQUAL, a field-theoretic extension to Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND). We show that while there is a sense in which momentum is conserved…