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In a recent paper [arXiv:1205.0096], we questioned the validity of the Lorentz law of force in the presence of material media that contain electric and/or magnetic dipoles. A number of authors have criticized our methods and conclusions.…
Getting the most from power-law-type data can be challenging. James Sethna points out some of the pitfalls in studying power laws arising from emergent scale invariance, as well as important opportunities.
This paper has been withdrawn by the author(s), due to double submission. You can find it under: physics/0208019
When the probability of measuring a particular value of some quantity varies inversely as a power of that value, the quantity is said to follow a power law, also known variously as Zipf's law or the Pareto distribution. Power laws appear…
In this paper we obtain some possibilistic variants of the probabilistic laws of large numbers, different from those obtained by other authors, but very natural extensions of the corresponding ones in probability theory. Our results are…
This is a comment on Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 180403 (2007) [arXiv:0704.2162].
We consider some critical claims concerning our above paper, and reply to these claims.
Selected examples of possible origins of power-law distributions are presented.
Review of Cheryl Misak, Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Editorial of a special issue on dark matter & modified gravity, distributed across the journals Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics and Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Published version of the open access…
We critically revisit the issue of power-law running in models with extra dimensions. The general conclusion is that, in the absence of any additional physical principle, the power-corrections tend to depend strongly on the details of the…
This letter is my comment about the opinion paper: Transdisciplinary electric power grid science (PNAS, 2013 - http://www.pnas.org/content/110/30/12159.full). [arXiv:1307.7305].
Comment on paper "Towards a bulk theory of flexoelectricity" by R.Resta [Phys.Rew. Lett. v. 105, 127601 (2010)]
Comment on the paper "Critical State Theory for Nonparallel Flux Line Lattices in Type-II Superconductors" by A. Badia and C. Lopez is presented here.
This is a reply to the Comment by S.-Y. Wang concerning our paper "Modified Coulomb Law in a Strongly Magnetized Vacuum"
This paper replies the comment by E. Kapuscik [Am. J. Phys. 77, 754 (2009)]
This talk offers some comments and perspectives on Lorentz and CPT violation.
If quantum friction existed [J.B. Pendry, New J. Phys. 12, 033028 (2010)] an unlimited amount of useful energy could be extracted from the quantum vacuum and Lifshitz theory would fail. Both are unlikely to be true.
Numerical data for the distribution of citations are examined for: (i) papers published in 1981 in journals which are catalogued by the Institute for Scientific Information (783,339 papers) and (ii) 20 years of publications in Physical…
This is a review of the theoretical aspects of the supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model of particle physics, extracted from Chapter 87 of the 2026 Review of Particle Physics, F. Takahashi et al. (Particle Data Group), Int. J. Mod.…