First, I briefly review the different conceptions of time held by three rival interpretations of quantum theory: the collapse of the wave-packet, the pilotwave interpretation, and the Everett interpretation (Section 2). Then I turn to a much less controversial task: to expound the recent understanding of the time-energy uncertainty principle, and indeed of uncertainty principles in general, tha...

A new variation on the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics is introduced, and its effects on the evolution of the Universe are reviewed. It is demonstrated that this modified form of quantum mechanics will produce a habitable Universe with no required tuning of the parameters, and without requiring multiple Universes or external creators.

Government representatives are meeting once again at the international climate talks in Paris in December 2015, with the aim of deciding on new steps towards preventing dangerous man-made climate change. Much of the disagreement among the parties can be linked to differing national priorities and burden sharing — that is, how much each country has to contribute to a solution, for example, in te...

"The mountain gorilla population has been falling drastically for many years so we wanted to take a closer look at what effect living in such small populations might have had on them and which consequences many years of inbreeding had had. As it turned out, the damaging genetic variations that usually arise in small, inbred populations were not there," says one of the study's co-authors, the ge...

This Article will focus on one particular accession condition that is illustrative of this phenomenon, namely, the protection of minorities. The Copenhagen criteria encompass the “respect for and protection of minorities” as one of the conditions for acceding to the Union, but the Treaty on European Union (”TEU”) does not explicitly mention the protection of minorities as one of the EU’s princi...

Alexandru I. Nicolin, R. Carretero-González, and P. G. Kevrekidis Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Group,* Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92182-7720, USA Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst...

The perceived success of post Kyoto Protocol mitigation policy largely revolves around the ability of parties to agree to binding targets in 2020 that provide a reasonable likelihood of avoiding 2°C warming. However, neither theory nor practice supports the assumption that a one-shot agreement can deliver such success, nor that it is preferable to a learning-by-doing approach. By contrast, chan...

Bayesianism is a theory of inductive inference that makes use of the mathematical theory of probability. Bayesians usually hold that the relevant probabilities should be interpreted in terms of rational degrees of belief. This still leaves much scope for disagreement, since there is no consensus about what norms govern rational degrees of belief. In this chapter, we first provide an introductio...

Quantum indeterminism seems incompatible with Kant’s defense of causality in his Second Analogy. The Copenhagen interpretation also takes quantum theory as evidence for anti-realism. This article argues that the law of causality, as transcendental, applies only to the world as observable, not to hypothetical (unobservable) objects such as quarks, detectable only by high energy accelerators. Tak...

Author(s): Don Howard Reviewed work(s): Source: Philosophy of Science, Vol. 71, No. 5, Proceedings of the 2002 Biennial Meeting of The Philosophy of Science AssociationPart II: Symposia PapersEdited by Sandra D. Mitchell (December 2004), pp. 669-682 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Philosophy of Science Association Stable URL: http://w...