Questioning the Foundations of Physics : which of our fundamental assumptions are wrong? /
The essays in this book look at way in which the fundaments of physics might need to be changed in order to make progress towards a unified theory. They are based on the prize-winning essays submitted to the FQXi essay competition "Which of Our Basic Physical Assumptions Are Wrong?", which...
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Cham [Switzerland] ; Heidelberg ; New York :
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[2015].
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / A. Aguirre, B. Foster, Z. Merali
- The paradigm of kinematics and dynamics must yield to causal structure / R. Spekkens
- Recognising top-down causation / G. Ellis
- On the foundational assumptions of modern physics / B. Dribus
- The preferred system of reference reloaded / I. Perez
- Right about time? / S. Gryb, F. Mercati
- A critical look at the standard cosmological picture / D. Janzen
- Not on but of / O. Dreyer
- Patterns in the fabric of nature / S. Weinstein
- Is quantum linear superposition an exact principle of nature? / A. Bassi, T. Singh, H. Ulbricht
- Quantum-informational principles for physics / G. D'Ariano
- The universe is not a computer / K. Wharton
- Against spacetime / G. Amelino-Camelia
- A chicken-and-egg problem: Which came first, the quantum state or spacetime? / T. Asselmeyer-Maluga
- Gravity can be neither classical nor quantized / S. Hossenfelder
- Weaving commutators: beyond Fock space / M. Arzano
- Reductionist doubts / J. Barbour
- Rethinking the scientific enterprise: in defense of reductionism / I. Durham
- Is life fundamental? / S. Walker.