Foundations of Physics: Volume 45, Issue 2, March 2015

An International Journal Devoted to the Conceptual Bases and Fundamental Theories of Modern Physics

Description
Our views of the physical world are changing rapidly. Humanity's continuing search for coherent structures in physics, biology, and cosmology has frequently led to surprises as well as confusion. Discovering new phenomena is one thing, putting them into context with other pieces of knowledge, and inferring their fundamental consequences is quite something else. There are controversies, differences of opinion, and sometimes even religious feelings which come into play. These should be discussed openly. Philosophical issues that are of a general, nontechnical nature should be handled in the opinion pages of the news media, but when the discussed arguments become too technical for that, when peer review is needed to select the really valuable pieces of insight, only a distinguished scientific journal is the appropriate form.
Foundations of Physics is an international journal devoted to the conceptual bases and fundamental theories of modern physics and cosmology, emphasizing the logical, methodological, and philosophical premises of modern physical theories and procedures.
We welcome papers on the interpretation of quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, special and general relativity as well as cosmology. Also, we think it is time for the experts on quantum gravity, quantum information, string theory, M-theory, and brane cosmology to ponder the foundations of these approaches.
New insights are gained only by intense interactions with professionals all over the globe, and by solidly familiarizing oneself with their findings. Fortunately there are many authors with a deep understanding of the topics they are discussing who are willing to take the opportunity to present their ideas in our journal, and their clever inventiveness continues to surprise us.
Acceptance of a paper may not necessarily mean that all referees agree with everything, but rather that the issues put forward by the author were considered to be of sufficient interest to our readership, and the exposition was clear enough that our readers, whom we assume to be competent enough, can judge for themselves.
The former letters publication Foundations of Physics Letters has been merged with Foundations of Physics. Short papers that demand a rapid publication process will be included in the special section "Letters to the Editor". Authors who wish to raise discussion points or other articles of a different format are welcome to submit these as well, if they care to explain their wishes with the submission

In this issue (5 articles)
OriginalPaper
A Hilbert Space Setting for Interacting Higher Spin Fields and the Higgs Issue
Bert Schroer Pages 219-252

OriginalPaper
Relations Between Different Notions of Degrees of Freedom of a Quantum System and Its Classical Model
Nikola Burić Pages 253-278

OriginalPaper
Condensed Matter Lessons About the Origin of Time
Gil Jannes Pages 279-294

OriginalPaper
Quantum Mechanics and the Principle of Least Radix Economy
Vladimir Garcia-Morales Pages 295-332

OriginalPaper
Discrete Excitation Spectrum of a Classical Harmonic Oscillator in Zero-Point Radiation
Wayne Cheng-Wei Huang, Herman Batelaan Pages 333-353

Related subjects » Classical Continuum Physics - Complexity - Epistemology & Philosophy of Science - History & Philosophical Foundations of Physics - Quantum Physics - Theoretical, Mathematical & Computational Physics