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The Challenging History of Other Earths 其他地球的挑战性历史
Pub Date : 2024-09-17 DOI: arxiv-2409.11349
Christopher M. Graney
This paper provides an overview of recent historical research regardingscientifically-informed challenges to the idea that the stars are other sunsorbited by other inhabited earths -- an idea that came to be known as "thePlurality of Worlds". Johannes Kepler in the seventeenth century, JacquesCassini in the eighteenth, and William Whewell in the nineteenth each arguedagainst "pluralism" based on what in their respective times was solid science.Nevertheless, pluralism remained popular despite these and other scientificchallenges. This history will be of interest to the astronomical community sothat it is better positioned to avoid difficulties should the historicaltrajectory of pluralism continue, especially as it persists in the popularimagination.
本文概述了最近的历史研究,这些研究针对的是有科学依据的观点,即恒星是被其他有人居住的地球所吸附的其他太阳--这种观点后来被称为 "世界的多元性"。十七世纪的约翰内斯-开普勒、十八世纪的雅克-卡西尼和十九世纪的威廉-惠威尔分别根据他们各自时代的可靠科学来反对 "多元论"。这段历史对天文学界很有意义,因为如果多元论的历史轨迹继续下去,尤其是在大众的想象中继续存在,天文学界就能更好地避免困难。
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Galileo and Buonamici on the Tides of the Sea: Was Something Omitted from the Dialogue? 伽利略与布纳米奇关于海潮的对话:对话中是否遗漏了什么?
Pub Date : 2024-09-17 DOI: arxiv-2409.11331
Christopher M. Graney
In his 1616 discourse on the tides, Galileo claimed that diurnal tidesoccurred in Lisbon, Portugal, bolstering his theory of the tides. Lisbon doesnot feature such tides, but in an exchange of letters in 1629-1630,Giovanfrancesco Buonamici provided Galileo with information on where such tidescould be found. Buonamici referred Galileo to the Regimiento de Navegaci'on ofAndr'es Garc'ia de C'espedes, and to the Descrittione di Tutti i Paesi Bassiof Lodovico Guicciardini. Galileo omitted any information on where diurnaltides occurred from his 1632 Dialogue, perhaps unintentionally, leaving himopen to criticism. Buonamici's material militates against that criticism.
在 1616 年关于潮汐的论述中,伽利略声称葡萄牙里斯本出现了昼夜潮汐,这支持了他的潮汐理论。里斯本并没有这种潮汐,但在 1629-1630 年的一次书信往来中,乔瓦尼-弗朗切斯科-布奥纳米奇(Giovanfrancesco Buonamici)向伽利略提供了可以在哪里找到这种潮汐的信息。布奥纳米奇让伽利略参考安德里斯-加西亚-德-科斯佩德斯(Andr'es Garc'ia de C'espedes )的《航海指南》(Regimiento de Navegaci'on ofAndr'es Garc'ia de C'espedes ),以及洛多维科-吉恰尔迪尼(Lodovico Guicciardini)的《世界各国地图》(Descrittione di Tutti i Paesi Bassiof)。伽利略在 1632 年的《对话录》中省略了关于日曜石发生地点的任何信息,这也许是无意的,但却使他受到了批评。布奥纳米奇的材料反驳了这种批评。
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Torres funerarias chullpa en el valle del río Lauca: un primer análisis arqueoastronómico 劳卡河流域的丘尔帕殡葬塔:首次考古天文学分析
Pub Date : 2024-09-16 DOI: arxiv-2409.10497
Alejandro Gangui
In this work we employ the methods of archaeoastronomy to analyze theorientation, possibly astronomical, of numerous groups of chullpa funerarytowers, mainly from the 12th to 16th centuries, located in the Lauca Rivervalley of the central Bolivian highlands. Despite their great historicalrelevance, both regarding the beliefs and funerary customs of the localpopulations and the characteristics of the landscape in the highlands, littleis known about the relationship of these mortuary monuments with the sky.Several authors, from chroniclers of the colonial era to more modern explorers,indicate that the tomb towers of these regions are oriented in such a way thatimportant parts of their structure (in general, the entrances of the chullpas)point towards the sunrise on the eastern horizon, in order to be imbued withthe first rays of the Sun. However, the sunrise changes its location noticeablyat different times of the year. Given the lack of written information or otherforms of original documentation, in order to affirm the use of a systematicorientation, it is necessary to measure a statistically significant number ofmonuments. We present here the results of the analysis of the precise spatialorientation of the entrances of 80 towers measured in situ during field work inthe Lauca River valley. We find that, except for a few, all the buildings havethe openings' axes oriented towards the east and within the solar range,between the extreme azimuths of the annual movement of the Sun as it crossesthe local horizon, with a notable concentration of entrances that pointslightly towards the north of due east. Our work is the first systematic studyof the orientations of the chullpa towers of the Lauca River and can providecrucial information to understand the evolution and scope of the chullpaphenomenon in the Bolivian highlands and in the entire surrounding region.
在这项研究中,我们采用了考古天文学的方法,分析了玻利维亚中部高原劳卡河谷中众多丘尔帕殡仪塔群的方位(可能是天文方位),这些塔群主要建于 12 世纪至 16 世纪。尽管这些古迹与当地居民的信仰和殡葬习俗以及高原地貌特征都具有重要的历史意义,但人们对这些殡葬古迹与天空的关系却知之甚少。从殖民时代的编年史作者到更现代的探险家,多位作者都指出,这些地区的墓塔都是这样朝向的:墓塔结构的重要部分(一般是墓室入口)朝向东方地平线上的日出,以便沐浴太阳的第一缕光芒。不过,日出的位置在一年中的不同时期会有明显的变化。由于缺乏书面资料或其他形式的原始文献,为了确认系统定位的使用,有必要对相当数量的古迹进行测量。我们在此介绍在劳卡河流域进行实地考察时,对现场测量的 80 座碉楼入口的精确空间方位进行分析的结果。我们发现,除少数建筑外,所有建筑的入口轴线都朝向东方,位于太阳周年运动穿过当地地平线时的极端方位角之间的太阳范围内,入口明显集中指向正东偏北的方向。我们的工作是对劳卡河矗立塔的方位进行的首次系统研究,可以为了解玻利维亚高原和整个周边地区矗立塔现象的演变和范围提供重要信息。
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Against Self-Location 反对自我定位
Pub Date : 2024-09-09 DOI: arxiv-2409.05259
Emily Adlam
I distinguish between pure self-locating credences and superficiallyself-locating credences, and argue that there is never any rationallycompelling way to assign pure self-locating credences. I first argue that froma practical point of view, pure self-locating credences simply encode ourpragmatic goals, and thus pragmatic rationality does not dictate how they mustbe set. I then use considerations motivated by Bertrand's paradox to argue thatthe indifference principle and other popular constraints on self-locatingcredences fail to be a priori principles of epistemic rationality, and Icritique some approaches to deriving self-locating credences based on analogiesto non-self-locating cases. Finally, I consider the implications of thisconclusion for various applications of self-locating probabilities inscientific contexts, arguing that it may undermine certain kinds of reasoningabout multiverses, the simulation hypothesis, and Boltzmann brains.
我将纯粹的自我定位信条与表面上的自我定位信条区分开来,并认为从理性上讲,从来没有任何令人信服的方法来分配纯粹的自我定位信条。我首先论证说,从实用的角度来看,纯粹的自我定位信条只是编码了我们的实用目标,因此实用理性并不决定必须如何设定这些信条。然后,我利用贝特朗悖论所引发的思考来论证,冷漠原则和其他流行的自我定位信条约束并不能成为认识理性的先验原则,我还批判了一些基于对非自我定位案例的类比来推导自我定位信条的方法。最后,我考虑了这一结论对自我定位概率在科学语境中的各种应用的影响,认为它可能会破坏某些关于多重宇宙、模拟假说和玻尔兹曼大脑的推理。
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Supersymmetry in the Seiberg-Witten Theory: A Window into Quantum Field Theory 塞伯格-维滕理论中的超对称性:量子场论之窗
Pub Date : 2024-09-07 DOI: arxiv-2409.04811
Sanne Vergouwen, Sebastian De Haro
We take supersymmetry in the Seiberg-Witten theory as a case study of theuses of (super)symmetry arguments in studying the ontology of four-dimensionalinteracting quantum field theories. Together with a double expansion,supersymmetry is a via media that helps to bridge the gap between theontologies of an exact quantum field theory and its semi-classical limit. Wediscuss a class of states that exist at any value of the coupling, and whoseproperties such as mass, electric and magnetic charges, and spin quantumnumbers can be precisely characterised at low energies. The low-energy theoryis best presented as a one-dimensional complex manifold, equipped with metricand other structures: namely, the space of low-energy vacua, covered by threeopen regions that are interpreted as macroscopic phases. We discuss two casesof emergence: the emergence of the low-energy regime and the emergence betweenmodels at low energies, thereby highlighting the significance of the topologyof the space of vacua for such cases of emergence.
我们以塞伯格-维滕理论中的超对称性为案例,研究利用(超)对称性论证研究四维相互作用量子场论的本体论。超对称与双膨胀一起,是一种有助于弥合精确量子场论的本体论与其半经典极限之间差距的媒介。我们讨论了在任何耦合值下都存在的一类态,它们的质量、电荷、磁荷和自旋量子数等特性可以在低能下精确描述。低能理论最好呈现为一维复流形,配备有度量和其他结构:即低能空泡空间,由三个开放区域覆盖,可解释为宏观相。我们讨论了两种出现的情况:低能体系的出现和低能模型之间的出现,从而强调了空泡空间拓扑对这种出现情况的重要性。
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Category-theoretic formulation of relational materialism 关系唯物主义的范畴论表述
Pub Date : 2024-09-04 DOI: arxiv-2409.02487
Bekir Baytaş, Ozan Ekin Derin
This brief brochure is intended to present a philosophical theory known asrelational materialism. We introduce the postulates and principles of thetheory, articulating its ontological and epistemological content using thelanguage of category theory. The identification of any existing entity isprimarily characterized by its relational, finite, and non-static nature.Furthermore, we provide a categorical construction of particularities withinthe relational materialist onto-epistemology. Our objective is to address andtransform a specific perspective prevalent in scientific communities into aproductive network of philosophical commitments.
这本简短的小册子旨在介绍一种被称为关系唯物主义的哲学理论。我们介绍了该理论的假设和原则,用范畴论的语言阐明了其本体论和认识论的内容。此外,我们还在关系唯物主义认识论中对特殊性进行了分类建构。我们的目标是解决科学界普遍存在的特定观点,并将其转化为哲学承诺的生产性网络。
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Evidence of Dark Energy Prior to its Discovery 发现暗能量之前的证据
Pub Date : 2024-08-24 DOI: arxiv-2408.13427
Geoffrey W. Marcy
This is a review and statistical analysis of the evidence supporting theexistence of a cosmological constant in the early 1990s, before its discoverymade with distant supernovae in 1998. The earlier evidence was derived fromnewly precise measurements of the Universe, including its mass density, theHubble constant, the age of the oldest stars, the filamentary large-scalestructure, and the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background. Thesemeasurements created tension for models assuming the cosmological constant waszero. This tension was alleviated by several insightful papers published before1996, which proposed a cosmological constant that increased the expansion rate.Statistical analysis here shows that the probability of the cosmologicalconstant being zero was demonstrably less than a few percent. Some modelsidentified a best-fit value close to the modern estimate of Omega_Lambda ~ 0.7.
这是对 20 世纪 90 年代初支持宇宙常数存在的证据进行的回顾和统计分析,之后在 1998 年发现了遥远的超新星。早期的证据来自对宇宙的最新精确测量,包括宇宙的质量密度、哈勃常数、最古老恒星的年龄、丝状大尺度结构以及宇宙微波背景的各向异性。这些测量结果给假设宇宙常数为零的模型带来了紧张。1996年之前发表的几篇有见地的论文缓解了这种紧张关系,这些论文提出了一个增加膨胀率的宇宙常数。统计分析显示,宇宙常数为零的概率明显小于百分之几。一些模型确定的最佳拟合值接近现代估计的 Omega_Lambda ~ 0.7。
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A note on the notion of now and time flow in special relativity 关于狭义相对论中的现在和时间流概念的说明
Pub Date : 2024-08-24 DOI: arxiv-2409.04450
Mario Bacelar Valente
With special relativity, we seem to be facing a conundrum. It is a verywell-tested theory; in this way, the Minkowski spacetime must be "capturing"essential features of space and time. However, its geometry seems to beincompatible with any sort of global notion of time. We might only have localnotions of now (present moment) and time flow, at best. In this note, we willexplore the possibility that a pretty much global notion of now (and time flow)might be hiding in plain sight in the geometry of the Minkowski spacetime.
对于狭义相对论,我们似乎面临着一个难题。狭义相对论是经过充分检验的理论;因此,闵科夫斯基时空一定 "捕捉 "到了空间和时间的基本特征。然而,它的几何学似乎与任何全球性的时间概念都不相容。我们充其量可能只有现在(当下)和时间流的局部概念。在这篇论文中,我们将探讨这样一种可能性,即在闵科夫斯基时空的几何中,可能隐藏着一个几乎是全局性的现在(和时间流)概念。
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Motivating Gauge-Invariant Approaches to Particle Physics 激励粒子物理的量子不变方法
Pub Date : 2024-08-21 DOI: arxiv-2408.11705
Philipp Berghofer
There is noticeable consensus among physicists and philosophers that onlygauge-invariant quantities can be physically real. However, this insight thatphysical quantities must be gauge-invariant is not well-reflected in standardapproaches to particle physics. For instance, each and every elementaryfield/particle of the Standard Model fails to be gauge-invariant! The mainobjective of this paper is to offer an accessible, concise, and convincinganalysis of why philosophers and physicists should devote more of their energyto working on gauge-invariant approaches. Correspondingly, the thesis of thispaper is that pursuing gauge-invariant approaches has several virtues. Forinstance, gauge-invariant reformulations allow us to make particle physicsconsistent with the mathematical framework in which it is formulated. This isillustrated by how mathematical theorems such as Elitzur's theorem, the Gribovambiguity, and Haag's theorem pose problems for standard approaches but areavoided by gauge-invariant approaches.
物理学家和哲学家们有一个明显的共识,即只有量规不变的量才是真实的物理量。然而,物理量必须是规整不变的这一观点并没有很好地反映在粒子物理学的标准方法中。例如,标准模型的每一个基本场/粒子都不是量规不变的!本文的主要目的是提供一个通俗易懂、简明扼要而又令人信服的分析,说明哲学家和物理学家为什么应该把更多的精力用于研究量规不变性方法。相应地,本文的论点是,追求量规不变方法有几个优点。例如,量规不变的重构使我们能够使粒子物理学与它所处的数学框架相一致。埃利祖尔定理、格里波夫不等式和哈格定理等数学定理如何给标准方法带来问题,却被量规不变方法所避免,就说明了这一点。
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How to Recover Spacetime Structure from Privileged Coordinates 如何从特权坐标中恢复时空结构
Pub Date : 2024-08-20 DOI: arxiv-2408.10674
Henrique Gomes, Tushar Menon, Oliver Pooley, James Read
We show that the geometric structure of an arbitrary relativistic spacetimecan be determined by the transformation groups associated with a collection ofprivileged coordinate systems.
我们证明,任意相对论时空的几何结构可以由与特权坐标系集合相关的变换群决定。
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