Foundations of Physics
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| Discipline | Physics |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Gerard 't Hooft |
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| History | 1970-present |
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| Frequency | 12/year |
| 0.829 (2008) | |
| ISO 4 | Find out here |
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| ISSN | 0015-9018 (print) 1572-9516 (web) |
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Foundations of Physics is a journal devoted to the "conceptual bases and fundamental theories of modern physics".[1]
Foundations of Physics has been published since 1970. Its founding editors were Henry Margenau and Wolfgang Yourgrau.[2] In January 2007, the 1999 Nobel laureate Gerard 't Hooft became the editor-in-chief. At that stage the associated journal for shorter submissions Foundations of Physics Letters, founded in 1988, was incorporated into it. Past editorial board members (which include several Nobel laureates) include Louis de Broglie, Robert H. Dicke, Murray Gell-Mann, Abdus Salam, Ilya Prigogine and Nathan Rosen.
Current Editorial Board
Chief Editor:
Gerard ’t Hooft, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Associate Editors:
Paul Busch, University of York, UK;
Dennis Dieks, Utrecht University, The Netherlands;
Erik Verlinde, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
Brigitte Falkenburg, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany
Editorial Board:
Jeffrey Bub, University of Maryland, MD, U.S.A.;
Arthur Fine, University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A;
Bas van Fraassen, Princeton University, NJ, U.S.A.;
Robert Geroch, University of Chicago, IL, U.S.A.;
GianCarlo Ghirardi, University of Trieste, Italy;
Sheldon Goldstein, Rutgers University, NJ, U.S.A.;
Daniel Greenberger, The City College of CUNY, NY, U.S.A.;
Alan Kostelecky, Indiana University, IN, U.S.A.;
Tim Maudlin, Rutgers University, Bloomington, U.S.A.;
D. Carlo Rovelli, Centre de Physique Theorique de Luminy, Marseilles, France;
Abner Shimony, Boston University, MA, U.S.A.;
Lee Smolin, Perimeter Institute, Canada;
C. Anton Zeilinger, University of Vienna, Austria;
Wojciech H. Zurek, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, U.S.A.
Subjects covered in journal
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. The journal publishes results and observations based on fundamental questions from all fields of physics, including:
quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, special relativity, general relativity, string theory, M-theory, cosmology, thermodynamics and statistical physics, quantum gravity
Controversy in the past
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The journal is notable[citation needed] for having published, as fact,[undue weight? – discuss] claims that the forces of electromagnetism and gravity propagate billions of times faster than light, that the curved space-time interpretation of general relativity has been conclusively falsified by experiment, that Einstein's theory of special relativity has been conclusively falsified by experiment, and that all objections to these assertions have been fully and satisfactorily answered.[3][verification needed] In 2008, an editorial was written by the new Editor-in-Chief Gerard ‘t Hooft[4] distancing the journal from the topic of Einstein–Cartan–Evans theory.
References
- ^ Description of the journal from its website
- ^ Margenau, Henry; Yourgrau, Wolfgang (1970), "Without Apologies and Editorial" (PDF), Foundations of Physics, 1: 1–3
- ^ Foundations of Physics, Vol. 32, No. 7, July 2002, "Experimental Repeal of the Speed Limit for Gravitational, Electrodynamic, and Quantum Field Interactions", Tom Van Flandern and Jean-Pierre Vigier
- ^ Editorial Note of Gerard 't Hooft concerning ECE theories, Foundations of Physics 38/1 (2008)