Wallace, David (2019) Naturalness and Emergence. [Preprint]
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I develop an account of naturalness (that is, approximately: lack of extreme fine-tuning) in physics which demonstrates that naturalness assumptions are not restricted to narrow cases in high-energy physics but are a ubiquitous part of inter-level relations are derived in physics. After exploring how and to what extent we might justify such assumptions on methodological grounds or through appeal to speculative future physics, I consider the apparent failure of naturalness in cosmology and in the Standard Model. I argue that any such naturalness failure threatens to undermine the entire structure of our understanding of inter-theoretic reduction, and so risks a much larger crisis in physics than is sometimes suggested; I briefly review some currently-popular strategies that might avoid that crisis.
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| Keywords: | naturalness cosmology emergence fine-tuning cosmological constant higgs boson standard model hierarchy problem statistical mechanics | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory General Issues > Reductionism/Holism Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics |
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| Depositing User: | Professor David Wallace | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 21 Feb 2019 14:27 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 21 Feb 2019 14:27 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 15757 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory General Issues > Reductionism/Holism Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics |
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| Date: | February 2019 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/15757 |
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