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316 reviewed papers in physics.hist-ph · newest first · page 1

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  1. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-06
    F=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
  2. gr-qc arXiv submitted 2026-08-06
    Big Bangs and parabolic escapes are the same shape history

    Julian Barbour +1 · “A Scale-Invariant Theory of the Universe”

    2608.05929
  3. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-03
    GR's diffeomorphism invariance is not a gauge symmetry

    \'Alvaro Mozota Frauca · “Gauge and Metaphysics of Spacetime”

    2608.02542
  4. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-31
    Schrödinger's Galileo fragment may be 40 years older than thought

    Helge Kragh · “Erwin Schroedinger: His Poetry and Fragment of a Galilean Dialogue”

    2607.29497
  5. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-30
    Roemer’s method still yields c within 10% with small telescopes

    Fabio Falchi +3 · “De mora luminis: Roemer's discovery 350 years later”

    2607.28512
  6. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-30
    AI physics discovery runs history in reverse

    Michael Shalyt +3 · “Can AI Follow In Einstein's Footsteps?”

    2607.27794
  7. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-29
    Faddeev–Popov ghost is the field-space connection

    Henrique Gomes · “Ghosts that Connect”

    2607.27297
  8. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-28
    1980s 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
  9. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-27
    Geometry-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
  10. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-23
    Dimensional analysis is a gauge theory

    Benjamin Muntz · “Dimensional Analysis is a Gauge Theory”

    2607.21695
  11. astro-ph.SR arXiv submitted 2026-07-23
    Boorong 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
  12. quant-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-22
    Complex numbers can go—quantum geometry stays

    Oliver Passon +1 · “Schr\"odinger's real-valued equation revisited”

    2607.20104
  13. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-22
    Quantum 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
  14. quant-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-21
    Quantum 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
  15. quant-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-20
    Quantum reference frames don't dodge Wigner's-friend no-go

    Andrea Di Biagio +1 · “Adlam's Frame: comment on "Wigner's Frame"”

    2607.18383
  16. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-19
    Koopman and von Neumann did not invent classical wave functions

    Jacob A. Barandes · “The History of Hilbert-Space Formulations of Classical Physics”

    2607.17408
  17. quant-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-19
    Many Worlds cannot justify the Born rule

    Emily Adlam +1 · “Against Many Worlds”

    2607.17086
  18. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-18
    How 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
  19. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-18
    Absolute velocity's undetectability is not a Newtonian theorem

    Jorge Manero +2 · “On the detection of absolute velocity in a Newtonian universe”

    2607.16584
  20. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-17
    Boltzmann brain counting can't rule out cosmologies

    Kelvin J. McQueen +1 · “Realism about the external world: an adversarial collaboration”

    2607.16379
  21. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-17
    Five-step template turns theory disputes into publishable insights

    Kelvin J. McQueen +1 · “Theoretical adversarial collaboration: a template”

    2607.16374
  22. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-16
    Black 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
  23. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-15
    Amazonian earthworks show deliberate solar alignments

    Giulio Magli · “The orientation of the Amazonian geoglyphs as a clue for their interpretation”

    2607.14201
  24. astro-ph.IM arXiv submitted 2026-07-14
    Genetic algorithm builds fairer review panels than random draws

    Ferdinando Patat · “A genetic algorithm for peer-review panel composition”

    2607.12757
  25. cs.GL arXiv submitted 2026-07-13
    Four working replicas preserve Zuse's lost Z3

    Raul Rojas · “The Reconstructions of Konrad Zuse's Z3 Computer”

    2607.13089
  26. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-13
    USSR banned Friedmann’s cosmos models for three decades

    A. F. Zakharov · “Cosmology: 100 years after A. A. Friedmann”

    2607.11791
  27. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-12
    Astroparticle physics formed around shared problems

    Luisa Bonolis · “The Emergence of Astroparticle Physics: From Cosmic-Ray Physics to a new Scientific Field”

    2607.10927
  28. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-10
    Only gravity dynamics stays novel once entanglement’s partners appear

    Rasmus Jaksland · “Spacetime from Entanglement: The Emergence of Metric, Gravity, or Topology”

    2607.09823
  29. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-10
    Reality is facts from perspectives

    Miko{\l}aj Sienicki +1 · “The New Tractatus Program: Quantum Mechanics, Anti-Totalitarian Ontology, and Consciousness”

    2607.09819
  30. physics.soc-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-10
    Topology 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
  31. physics.soc-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-06
    Rome 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
  32. gr-qc arXiv submitted 2026-07-06
    Quantum time density alone produces FLRW cosmology

    Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica · “Emergent cosmology and gravity from quantum time?”

    2607.05020
  33. quant-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-05
    QM leaves only perspectives, no absolute world behind them

    Jenann Ismael +1 · “Against Totalitarianism -- Introduction to Tractatus Quanticum”

    2607.05459
  34. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-03
    Gondishapur 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
  35. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-03
    Lived time sits past brain time in the growing universe

    Nicol\`o Cangiotti · “Becoming, Duration, and the Evolving Block Universe”

    2607.03415
  36. astro-ph.SR arXiv submitted 2026-07-02
    Clavius 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
  37. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-02
    GRMHD models of Sgr A* carry problematic epistemic opacity

    Juliusz Doboszewski +1 · “Black Boxes in Black Hole Imaging”

    2607.02110
  38. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-01
    1990s 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
  39. quant-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-01
    Pointers allow exact time despite bounded energy

    Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica · “Exact quantum time compatible with positive energy”

    2607.01296
  40. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-01
    Talmi's shell-model methods left lasting nuclear-theory tools

    Amiram Leviatan +1 · “In Memoriam: Igal Talmi (1925-2026)”

    2607.00787
  41. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-01
    Category theory casts state spaces as arrows for constrained theories

    Sean Gryb +1 · “Nomic Structure and Reduction”

    2607.01289
  42. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-06-30
    Quantum 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
  43. astro-ph.SR arXiv submitted 2026-06-29
    Ancient 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
  44. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-06-29
    Naturalness tracks invariant maps from parameters to observables

    Stefano Profumo · “What Naturalness Measures: Fine-Tuning and Informational Invariants in Cosmology and Dark Matter”

    2606.29660
  45. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-06-27
    Cathetus rule locates sagittal images on chief ray

    Gavin R. Putland · “The unreasonable effectiveness of the cathetus rule in ancient and modern optics”

    2606.28851
  46. gr-qc arXiv submitted 2026-06-23
    Spatiotemporal structures define diffeomorphism invariants

    \'Alvaro Mozota Frauca · “Diffeomorphism-Invariant Quantities in Phase Space: More than Correlations”

    2606.25072
  47. math-ph arXiv submitted 2026-06-22
    2606.22767
  48. quant-ph arXiv submitted 2026-06-21
    Scattering reveals distinct channels for identical particle labels

    R. E. Kastner · “The Physics Behind Symmetrization”

    2606.22298
  49. physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-06-19
    Cosmology captures invariants in data across models

    Stefano Profumo · “Cosmology as Representation: Informational Invariance and the Limits of Scientific Realism”

    2606.21586
  50. quant-ph arXiv submitted 2026-06-18
    Spectrum-preserving flows derive Lax quantum dynamics

    P\'eter Szab\'o · “Quantum Dynamics from Lax Pair Theory: A Reconstruction from Spectrum Preservation”

    2606.19664