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Excess Baggage
James B. Hartle
Many advances in physics have in common that some idea which was previously accepted as fundamental, general, and inescapable was subsequently seen to be consequent, special, and d…
Theories of Everything and Hawking's Wave Function of the Universe
James B. Hartle
If a cat, a cannonball, and an economics textbook are all dropped from the same height, they fall to the ground with exactly the same acceleration under the influence of gravity. T…
Generalized Quantum Theory and Black Hole Evaporation
James B. Hartle
Usually quantum theory is formulated in terms of the evolution of states through spacelike surfaces. However, a generalization of this formulation is needed for field theory in spa…
Scientific Knowledge from the Perspective of Quantum Cosmology
James B. Hartle
Existing physical theories do not predict every feature of our experience but only certain regularities of that experience. That difference between what could be observed and what…