INDEX
Every paper Pith has read and judged, in one searchable index.
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physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-06F=ma is a theorem, not an empirical law
Lars Nordmann · “Newton's Second Law: A Theoretical Identity Derived from the Principle of Excluded Perpetual Motion and the Weak Equivalence Principle”
2608.06266 -
gr-qc arXiv submitted 2026-08-06Big Bangs and parabolic escapes are the same shape history
Julian Barbour +1 · “A Scale-Invariant Theory of the Universe”
2608.05929 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-03GR's diffeomorphism invariance is not a gauge symmetry
\'Alvaro Mozota Frauca · “Gauge and Metaphysics of Spacetime”
2608.02542 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-31Schrödinger's Galileo fragment may be 40 years older than thought
Helge Kragh · “Erwin Schroedinger: His Poetry and Fragment of a Galilean Dialogue”
2607.29497 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-30Roemer’s method still yields c within 10% with small telescopes
Fabio Falchi +3 · “De mora luminis: Roemer's discovery 350 years later”
2607.28512 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-30AI physics discovery runs history in reverse
Michael Shalyt +3 · “Can AI Follow In Einstein's Footsteps?”
2607.27794 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-29Faddeev–Popov ghost is the field-space connection
Henrique Gomes · “Ghosts that Connect”
2607.27297 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-281980s gamma-ray claims helped build IceCube and Auger
A A Watson · “The Development of Detectors of High Energy Neutrinos and Cosmic Rays between 1980 and 2000”
2607.25535 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-27Geometry-first gauge theory is not the same as symmetry-first
Henrique Gomes · “The geometry-first formulation of gauge theory is not equivalent to the symmetry-first one”
2607.24901 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Dimensional analysis is a gauge theory
Benjamin Muntz · “Dimensional Analysis is a Gauge Theory”
2607.21695 -
astro-ph.SR arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Boorong star story is a confirmed record of Eta Carinae's eruption
Dionysios Gakis · “Echoes of Star Stories: Integrating Indigenous narratives into modern stellar astrophysics”
2607.21679 -
quant-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-22Complex numbers can go—quantum geometry stays
Oliver Passon +1 · “Schr\"odinger's real-valued equation revisited”
2607.20104 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-22Quantum spacetime may tie the speed of light to the universe's age
Dawood Kothawala · “Quantum nature of gravity and spacetime: Fundamental insights from the Hoyle-Narlikar theory”
2607.21649 -
quant-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-21Quantum dynamics alone yields the arrow of time
Christopher J. N. Coveney +1 · “The arrow of time, irreversibility, equilibrium and measurement in quantum mechanics”
2607.19142 -
quant-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-20Quantum reference frames don't dodge Wigner's-friend no-go
Andrea Di Biagio +1 · “Adlam's Frame: comment on "Wigner's Frame"”
2607.18383 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-19Koopman and von Neumann did not invent classical wave functions
Jacob A. Barandes · “The History of Hilbert-Space Formulations of Classical Physics”
2607.17408 -
quant-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-19Many Worlds cannot justify the Born rule
Emily Adlam +1 · “Against Many Worlds”
2607.17086 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-18How the CPT theorem gave us the first antimatter collider
Giulia Pancheri · “Particle accelerators as a path to intergovernmental collaboration: the case of the first electron positron collider and the power of theoretical physics”
2607.16825 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-18Absolute velocity's undetectability is not a Newtonian theorem
Jorge Manero +2 · “On the detection of absolute velocity in a Newtonian universe”
2607.16584 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-17Boltzmann brain counting can't rule out cosmologies
Kelvin J. McQueen +1 · “Realism about the external world: an adversarial collaboration”
2607.16379 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-17Five-step template turns theory disputes into publishable insights
Kelvin J. McQueen +1 · “Theoretical adversarial collaboration: a template”
2607.16374 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-16Black hole photo's real result: a ring that survives reprocessing
Rodrigo Ochigame +2 · “Coloring Black Holes: Epistemic and Aesthetic Choices in Astronomical Imaging”
2607.14928 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-15Amazonian earthworks show deliberate solar alignments
Giulio Magli · “The orientation of the Amazonian geoglyphs as a clue for their interpretation”
2607.14201 -
astro-ph.IM arXiv submitted 2026-07-14Genetic algorithm builds fairer review panels than random draws
Ferdinando Patat · “A genetic algorithm for peer-review panel composition”
2607.12757 -
cs.GL arXiv submitted 2026-07-13Four working replicas preserve Zuse's lost Z3
Raul Rojas · “The Reconstructions of Konrad Zuse's Z3 Computer”
2607.13089 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-13USSR banned Friedmann’s cosmos models for three decades
A. F. Zakharov · “Cosmology: 100 years after A. A. Friedmann”
2607.11791 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-12Astroparticle physics formed around shared problems
Luisa Bonolis · “The Emergence of Astroparticle Physics: From Cosmic-Ray Physics to a new Scientific Field”
2607.10927 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-10Only gravity dynamics stays novel once entanglement’s partners appear
Rasmus Jaksland · “Spacetime from Entanglement: The Emergence of Metric, Gravity, or Topology”
2607.09823 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-10Reality is facts from perspectives
Miko{\l}aj Sienicki +1 · “The New Tractatus Program: Quantum Mechanics, Anti-Totalitarian Ontology, and Consciousness”
2607.09819 -
physics.soc-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-10Topology flags Han collapse 45 years early
Jose de Jesus Bernal-Alvarado +2 · “Topological Signatures of Imperial Collapse and Fragmentation: Administrative Dissolution, Territorial Reorganization and Early-Warning Observables in the Han Dynasty Network (206~BCE\,--\,220~CE)”
2607.09010 -
physics.soc-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-06Rome and Byzantium both fell at trade entropy ~0.52
Jose de Jesus Bernal-Alvarado +2 · “Structural Divergence of the Roman--Byzantine Trade Network, 0--1453\,CE: Persistent Homology, Topological Velocity, and Criticality Indicators of Imperial Collapse”
2607.05695 -
gr-qc arXiv submitted 2026-07-06Quantum time density alone produces FLRW cosmology
Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica · “Emergent cosmology and gravity from quantum time?”
2607.05020 -
quant-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-05QM leaves only perspectives, no absolute world behind them
Jenann Ismael +1 · “Against Totalitarianism -- Introduction to Tractatus Quanticum”
2607.05459 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-03Gondishapur seeded Baghdad’s House of Wisdom
Rizoi Bakhromzod · “The influence of the Academy of Gondishapur on the formation of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad and the science of the Golden Age of Islam”
2607.03483 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-03Lived time sits past brain time in the growing universe
Nicol\`o Cangiotti · “Becoming, Duration, and the Evolving Block Universe”
2607.03415 -
astro-ph.SR arXiv submitted 2026-07-02Clavius report caps 1567 solar radius at modern value
Hisashi Hayakawa +6 · “Analyses on Christoph Clavius' Reports of Total Solar Eclipses in 1560 and 1567: Key References for the Centennial Variations of the Earth's Rotation Speed and the Solar Radius”
2607.02347 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-02GRMHD models of Sgr A* carry problematic epistemic opacity
Juliusz Doboszewski +1 · “Black Boxes in Black Hole Imaging”
2607.02110 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-011990s Soviet scientists got US career boost from expertise export
Vitaly Pronskikh · “Selling the Stock, Not the Cream: The Soviet \'Emigr\'e Career Premium of the 1990s”
2607.01521 -
quant-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-01Pointers allow exact time despite bounded energy
Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica · “Exact quantum time compatible with positive energy”
2607.01296 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-01Talmi's shell-model methods left lasting nuclear-theory tools
Amiram Leviatan +1 · “In Memoriam: Igal Talmi (1925-2026)”
2607.00787 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-01Category theory casts state spaces as arrows for constrained theories
Sean Gryb +1 · “Nomic Structure and Reduction”
2607.01289 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-06-30Quantum dynamics block spacetime emergence from non-spatiotemporal stuff
\'Alvaro Mozota Frauca · “The Dynamics of Quantum Gravity: the Missing Piece in the Spacetime Emergentist Account”
2606.31559 -
astro-ph.SR arXiv submitted 2026-06-29Ancient records of Theta Eridani brightness match a real binary transient
Idel Waisberg +1 · “The forgotten bright star: Theta Eridani as a millenary stellar transient observed by Hipparchus, Ptolemy and al-Sufi”
2606.30748 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-06-29Naturalness tracks invariant maps from parameters to observables
Stefano Profumo · “What Naturalness Measures: Fine-Tuning and Informational Invariants in Cosmology and Dark Matter”
2606.29660 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-06-27Cathetus rule locates sagittal images on chief ray
Gavin R. Putland · “The unreasonable effectiveness of the cathetus rule in ancient and modern optics”
2606.28851 -
gr-qc arXiv submitted 2026-06-23Spatiotemporal structures define diffeomorphism invariants
\'Alvaro Mozota Frauca · “Diffeomorphism-Invariant Quantities in Phase Space: More than Correlations”
2606.25072 -
math-ph arXiv submitted 2026-06-22Hadamard condition makes operator products well-defined on field observables
Eleanor March · “Why Hadamard states?”
2606.22767 -
quant-ph arXiv submitted 2026-06-21Scattering reveals distinct channels for identical particle labels
R. E. Kastner · “The Physics Behind Symmetrization”
2606.22298 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-06-19Cosmology captures invariants in data across models
Stefano Profumo · “Cosmology as Representation: Informational Invariance and the Limits of Scientific Realism”
2606.21586 -
quant-ph arXiv submitted 2026-06-18Spectrum-preserving flows derive Lax quantum dynamics
P\'eter Szab\'o · “Quantum Dynamics from Lax Pair Theory: A Reconstruction from Spectrum Preservation”
2606.19664