General Physics

Aerts, D. ''Description of Many Physical Entities Without the Paradoxes Encountered in Quantum Mechanics." Found. Phys. 12 (1982) 1131.

Badash, Lawrence. ''The Age of the Earth Debate." Scientific American 261, 2 (1989) 90-96.

Barrow, John D. ''The Isotropy of the Universe." Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 23, 3 (1982) 344-357.

Bayfield, J. E., P. M. Koch. ''Multiphoton Ionization of Highly Excited Hydrogen Atoms." Physical Review Letters 33 (1974) 258.
At the time when we thought that we understood all about the hydrogen atom, and about the semi-classical limit of quantum mechanics, these experiments found something entirely new. This was to be the beginning of quantum chaos.

Bordag, M., U. Mohideen, V. M. Mostepanenko. ''New Developments in the Casimir Effect." Physics Reports 350 (2001).

Boubelli, L., J. Lee, D Meyer. ''Space-time as a Causal Set." Physical Review Letters 59 (1987).
Causal sets as an underlying reality for space-time.

Boyer, Timothy H. ''Classical Statistical Theomodynamics and Electromagnetic Zero-point Radiation." Physical Review 186, 5 (1969) 1304-18.
A discussion on electromagnetic zero-point radiation and how it leads to the introduction of the idea of quanta.

Brightwell, Graham, Ruth Gregory. ''Structure of Random Discrete Spacetime." Physical Review Letters 66, 3 (1991) 260-263.

Butterfield, Jeremy. "The State of Physics: Halfway through the Woods." The Journal of Soft Computing, 5 (2001) 129-130.

Cahill, R. T., C. M. Klinger. ''Self-referential Noise and the Synthesis of Three-dimensional Space." Gen. Rel. and Grav. 32, 3 (2000) 529.
Generalising results from Gödel and Chaitin in mathematics suggests that self-referential systems contain intrinsic randomness. This is relevant to modelling the universe and show how three-dimensional space may arise from a non-geometric order-disorder model driven by self-referential noise.

Calude, Cristian S., Peter H. Hertling, Karl Svozil. ''Embedding Quantum Universes in Classical Ones." Foundations of Physics 29, 3 (1999) 349-390.
How far might a classical understanding of quantum mechanics be possible? A celebrated result of Kochen and Specker answers the above question in the negative. However, this answer is just one among various possible ones, not all negative. The paper discusses the above questions in terms of mappings of quantum worlds into classical ones, more specifically, in terms of embeddings of quantum logics into classical logics.

Chiao, Raymond Y., Paul G. Kwiat, Aephraim M. Steinberg. ''Faster than Light?: Quantum Experiments Involving Tunneling Photons." Scientific American 269 (1993) 52-60.
A phenomenon in quantum mechanics known as nonlocality, or "action at a distance," calls into question one of the most fundamental tenets of modern physics—the proposition that nothing travels faster than the speed of light.

Clauser, J. F. ''Experimental Distinction Between the Quantum and Classical Field-theoretic Predictions for the Photoelectric Effect." Physical Review D 9 (1974) 853.
The first experimental demonstration that a photon, unlike a wave packet, cannot be split by a half-silvered mirror, and hence demonstrating the necessity for quantizing the electromagnetic field.

Cornell, Eric A. ''Stopping Light in its Tracks." Nature 409 (2001) 461-462.
"Stopping of light" and its implications for future of science and technology.

Crawford, Henry J., Carsten H. Greiner. ''The Search for Strange Matter." Scientific American 270, 1 (1994) 72-77.

Dirac, P. A. M. ''Cosmological Models and the Large Numbers Hypothesis." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A 338 (1974).

Dirac, P. A. M. ''The Cosmological Constants." Nature 139 (1937) 323.

Dirac, P. A. M. ''The Requirement of Fundamental Physical Theory." European Journal of Physics 5 (1984) 65-67.

Einstein, Albert. “Zur Elektrodynamik bevegter Körper,” Annalen der Physik, 17 (1905), 891-919.
The initial paper on what is now called special relativity, framing our modern view of space and time, quite different from Newton’s belief in absolute time and space.

Elizalde, E., A. Romeo. ''Essentials of the Casimir Effect and its Computation." American Journal of Physics 59, 8 (1991) 711-719.
An introduction to the Casimir effect: The latent force existing in the physical vacuum.

Fischbach, Ephraim, Geoffrey L. Greene, Richard J. Hughes. ''New Test of Quantum Mechanics: Is Planck's Constant Unique?" Physical Review Letters 66, 3 (1991) 256-259.

Gamow, George. ''The Exclusion Principle." Scientific American 201 (1959) 74.

Gell-Mann, M., J. B. Hartle. ''Classical Equations for Quantum Systems." Phys. Rev. D 47 (1993) 3345.

Geroch, R., J. Hartle. ''Computability and Physical Theories." Foundations of Physics 16 (1986) 533.
Careful elucidation of the physical manifestations of computability.

Ghirardi, G. C., R. Grassi, A. Rimini. ''Continuous-Spontaneous Reduction Model Involving Gravity." Phys. Rev. A 42 (1990) 1057.

Ghirardi, G. C., A. Rimini, T. Weber. ''Unified Dynamics for Microscopic and Macroscopic Systems." Phys. Rev. D 34 (1986) 470.

Glanz, James, Dennis Overbye. ''Anything Can Change, It Seems, Even an Immutable Law of Nature." New York Times Aug 15 (2001) A1.
The article continues under the title ''Cosmic Laws like Speed of Light Might Be Changing, a Study Finds" by James Glanz and Dennis Overbye in New York Times Aug 15, 2001.

Goldman, Terry, Richard J. Hughes, Michael Martin Nieto. ''Gravity and Antimatter." Scientific American 258, 3 (1988) 48-56.

Gollub, J. P., J. S. Langer. ''Pattern Formation and Nonequilibrium Physics." Reviews of Modern Physics 71, 2 (1999) S665-78.

Greenberg, O. W., R. N. Mohapatra. ''Local Quantum Field Theory of Possible Violation of the Pauli Principle." Physical Review Letters 59, 22 (1987) 2507-2510.

Greenberger, Daniel M. ''The Equivalence Principle Meets the Uncertainty Principle." Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré 49, 3 (1988) 307-314.

Gulkis, Samuel, Philip M. Lubin, Stephan S. Meyer. ''The Cosmic Background Explorer." Scientific American 262, 1 (1990) 132-139.

Haisch, Bernhard, Alfonso Rueda, H. E. Puthoff. ''Beyond E=mc²." The Sciences, Nov/Dec (1994) 26-31.
An idea that mass, inertia and gravity arise from underlying electromagnetic processes.

Hogan, Craig J. ''Why the Universe Is Just So." Reviews of Modern Physics 72, 4 (2000) 1149.
A discussion on the necessity, chance in physics; our location in space-time; fixed and turnable parameters in physics and in the final theory.

Johnson, George. ''Back to Basics: How Did Space Get its Dimensions?" New York Times, Jun 26 (2001) F5.

Johnson, George. ''Suddenly, the Cosmos Looks More Fickle." New York Times, Aug 19 (2001) 4-1.

Kohn, W. ''An Essay on Condensed Matter Physics in the Twentieth Century." Reviews of Modern Physics 71, 2 (1999) S96-S128.

Liu, Chien, Zachary Dutton, Cyrus H. Behroozi. ''Observation of Coherent Optical Information Storage in an Atomic Medium Using Halted Light Pulses." Nature 409, 490-493 (2001).
A "Stopping of Light" experiment.

Luminet, Jean-Piere, Glenn D. Starkman, Jeffrey R. Weeks. ''Is Space Finite?" Scientific American 280, 4 (1999) 90-97.

Lynden-Bell, D., M. Nouri-Zonoz. ''Classical Monopoles: Newton, Nut Space, Gravomagnetic Lensing, and Atomic Spectra.." Reviews of Modern Physics 70, 2 (1998) 427-45.

Petroni, N. Cufaro, J. P. Vigier. ''Remarks on Observed Superluminal Light Propagation." Foundation of Physics Letters 14, 4 (2001) 395-400.

Shapiro, Irwin I. ''A Century of Relativity." Reviews of Modern Physics 71, 2 (1999) S41-53.

Svozil, K. ''Consistent Use of Paradoxes in Deriving Contraints on the Dynamics of Physical Systems and of No-go-theorems." Foundations of Physics Letters 8 (1995) 523-535.
The classical methods used by recursion theory and formal logic to block paradoxes do not work in quantum information theory. It is suggested that any two pieces of contradicting information are stored and processed as coherent superposition.

Svozil, K. ''Time Paradoxa Reviewed." Phys. Lett. A199 (1995) 323-326.

Valentini, Antony. ''Violation of Wave-particle Complementarity in Nonlinear Quantum Mechnanics." Physical Review A 42, 1 (1990) 639-640.

Whitrow, G. ''Why the World Has Three Dimensions." British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 6 (1955) 13.
First explicit use of our existence to argue that we could not have found ourselves living in more than three space dimensions.

Zeh, H. Dieter. ''There Are No Quantum Jumps, Nor Are There Particles." Physics Letters A 172 (1993) 189.

Utke, A. R. ''Chemistry: What Does One Need to Know?" Zygon 31, 3 (1996) 497-507.