The Projection Postulate of Quantum Mechanics on the Lightcone

We discuss an interpretation of the projection postulate that implies collapse of the wavefunction along the lightcone.Comment: 5 pages, LaTex, SJSU/TP-93-1

Can Future Events Influence the Present?

Widom, Srivastava, and Sassaroli have published [Phys. Lett. A 203, 255 (1995)] a calculation which purports to show that "future events can affect present events". In this note an error in their calculation is identified.Comment: 3 pages, LaTeX, no figure

Why Darwin was English

A ‘late developer’ argument, common to Psychology and Economic History, can be used to explain cultural innovation. It argues that the 19th century theory of natural selection arose in England and not Germany because of – and not in spite of – England’s scientific backwardness. Measured in terms of institutions, communities, and ideas, the relative retardation of English science was precisely what enabled it to adopt German advances in novel ways

Response to Richards

Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818-1896) complicates the historiography of the reception of Darwinism. His presentation of the theory was anti-teleological, a fact that refutes the claim that German Darwinists were Romantic