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The Peculiar Bursting Nature of CP Pup (2024)
Journal Article
Veresvarska, M., Scaringi, S., Hagen, S., De Martino, D., Done, C., Ilkiewicz, K., …Littlefield, C. (2024). The Peculiar Bursting Nature of CP Pup. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 529(1), 664-672. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae573

The classical nova CP Puppis has been observed to have particularly puzzling and peculiar properties. In particular, this classical nova displays occasional bursts in its long-term ASAS-SN light curve. Here, we report on five sectors of TESS data dis... Read More about The Peculiar Bursting Nature of CP Pup.

Gravitational imaging through a triple source plane lens: revisiting the ΛCDM-defying dark subhalo in SDSSJ0946+1006 (2024)
Journal Article
Ballard, D. J., Smith, R. J., Enzi, W. J. R., Collett, T. E., & Turner, H. C. (2024). Gravitational imaging through a triple source plane lens: revisiting the ΛCDM-defying dark subhalo in SDSSJ0946+1006. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 528(4), 7564-7586. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae514

Casimir forces at the cutting edge (2015)
Book Chapter
Simpson, W., Leonhardt, U., Decca, R., & Buhmann, S. Y. (2015). Casimir forces at the cutting edge. In W. M. R. Simpson, & U. Leonhardt (Eds.), Forces of the Quantum Vacuum: an introduction to Casimir Physics (227-246). World Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814644761_0007

It would be a pity if you read this far, decided that it all made perfect sense, and put the book down, supposing that scientists have got the Casimir effect ‘pretty much figured out’. They haven't, and physics only thrives when people ask questions.... Read More about Casimir forces at the cutting edge.

Half-Baked Humeanism (2017)
Book Chapter
Simpson, W. M. R. (2017). Half-Baked Humeanism. In W. M. R. Simpson, R. C. Koons, & N. J. Teh (Eds.), Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science (123-145). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315211626-7

Toby Handfield has advanced a subtle form of dispositionalism that purports to reconcile the concept of causal powers with broadly Humean convictions by dissolving the requirement for objectively modal relations between powers and their manifestation... Read More about Half-Baked Humeanism.

Reflections on Contemporary Science and the New Aristotelianism (2017)
Book Chapter
Koons, R. C., Simpson, W. M. R., & Teh, N. J. (2017). Reflections on Contemporary Science and the New Aristotelianism. In W. M. R. Simpson, R. C. Koons, & N. J. Teh (Eds.), Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science (1-11). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315211626-1

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book considers the challenge to traditional Aristotelian metaphysics posed by the 'block universe' of special relativity, as modeled by... Read More about Reflections on Contemporary Science and the New Aristotelianism.