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Quantum effects and, in particular, entanglement are by now widely recognized in all areas of physics and related fields. However, we feel that the precise notion of entanglement---though mathematically well-defined---still generates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-15 Kedar S. Ranade , Kaled Dechoum

We note that the empirical predictions of the "Quantum Clock Proposal" [L. Maccone and K. Sacha, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 110402 (2020)] are paradoxical when viewed as a solution to the quantum arrival-time problem.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Will Cavendish , Siddhant Das , Markus Nöth , Ali Ayatollah Rafsanjani

Quantum paradoxes show that quantum statistics can exceed the limits of positive joint probabilities for physical properties that cannot be measured jointly. It is therefore impossible to describe the relations between the different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Holger F. Hofmann

This thesis presents the strong and weak forms of the Banach-Tarski paradox based on the Hausdorff paradox. It provides modernized proofs of the paradoxes and necessary properties of equidecomposable and paradoxical sets. The historical…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2022-06-29 Mats Wahlberg

The firewall paradox, a puzzle in black hole physics, depends on an implicit assumption: a rule that allows the infalling and the outside observer to combine their perspectives. However, a recent extension of the Wigner's friend paradox…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Ladina Hausmann , Renato Renner

We review some outstanding puzzles and experimental anomalies in hadron physics that appear to challenge conventional wisdom and, in some cases, the foundations of QCD. We also discuss possible solutions and propose new tests and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-02-25 Stanley J. Brodsky , Guy de Teramond , Marek Karliner

We investigate what it means to apply the solution, proposed to the firewall paradox by Harlow and Hayden, to the famous quantum paradoxes of Sch\"odinger's Cat and Wigner's Friend if ones views these as posing a thermodynamic decoding…

General Physics · Physics 2015-02-17 Karl-Georg Schlesinger

We discuss an apparent information paradox that arises in a materialist's description of the Universe if we assume that the Universe is 100% quantum. We discuss possible ways out of the paradox, including that Laws of Nature are not purely…

Popular Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Zura Kakushadze

We argue that whether the universe is infinite or finite is less crucial than usually supposed. Paradoxes of repeating behaviour in the infinite, or eternal inflationary, universe can be alleviated by a realistic definition of differing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 D. H. Coule

We review both the Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen (EPR) paper about the completeness of quantum theory, and Schrodinger's responses to the EPR paper. We find that both the EPR paper and Schrodinger's responses, including the cat paradox, are not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Elias P. Gyftopoulos , Michael R. von Spakovsky

In this paper, I will demonstrate a new perspective on the Two Envelope Problem. I hope to show with convincing clarity how the paradox results from an inherent problem pertaining to the interpretation of Bayesian probability. Specifically,…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2012-08-27 Eric Bliss

Quantum mechanics describes the relation between different measurement contexts in terms of superpositions of the potential measurement outcomes. This relation between measurement contexts makes it impossible to determine context…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Holger F. Hofmann

The "paradox" arises in the Two Envelopes Paradox from the incorrect formulation of the argument. The infomation given is misused and therefore the results are incorrect for the question asked. The key is to be clear on what question we are…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Adom Giffin

I distinguish between two versions of the black hole information-loss paradox. The first arises from apparent failure of unitarity on the spacetime of a completely evaporating black hole, which appears to be non-globally-hyperbolic; this is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-18 David Wallace

In this MSc. thesis, we have attempted to give an overview of the firewall paradox and various approaches towards its resolution. After an introductory chapter on some basic concepts in quantum field theory in curved spacetimes such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-06 Furkan Semih Dündar

The Classical Twin Paradox is widely dealt in literature and neatly resolved. In addition, it is also well known that, when looking at two systems which are boosted relative to each other, the concept of the simultaneous effect of a quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-10 Doron ludwin

Some known relativistic paradoxes are reconsidered for closed spaces, using a simple geometric model. For two twins in a closed space, a real paradox seems to emerge when the traveling twin is moving uniformly along a geodesic and returns…

General Physics · Physics 2015-04-08 Moses Fayngold

Kauffman's bracket is an invariant of regular isotopy of knots and links which since its discovery in 1985 it has been used in many different directions: (a) it implies an easy proof of the invariance of (in fact, it is equivalent to) the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-05-15 Sostenes Lins

In this paper it is shown that the real cause of the apparent electrodynamic paradox discussed by Jackson [J. D. Jackson, Am. J. Phys. 72, 1484 (2004)] is the use of three-dimensional (3D) quantities E, B, F, L, N, .. . When 4D geometric…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomislav Ivezic

Quantum mechanics (QM) has attracted a considerable amount of mysticism, in public opinion and even among academic researches, due to some of its conceptually puzzling features, such as the modification of reality by the observer and…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2011-12-01 Giorgio Torrieri