Behruz Ebrahimi

The Uneven Death of the Ether: Functional Unbundling and the Fate of a Scientific Object

The ether did not disappear from physics in a single experimental or conceptual event. It had carried a bundle of tasks: filling space, securing contact action, supporting waves, defining rest, storing energy and momentum, and giving physical structure to space. This article reco...

When Is Ontological Suspension Legitimate? Newtonian Restraint and Quantum Understanding

Quantum mechanics is often presented through a forced choice: either a physical theory becomes intelligible only after it specifies what reality is intrinsically, or predictive and operational success is all the understanding physics can legitimately seek. This article rejects th...

Dynamical Architecture and the Physical Organization of Evolution

Interaction specifications acquire determinate evolutionary effects through a system’s lawful response organization. This article distinguishes kinematical structure, response rules, interaction contributions, and selected problem data. Newtonian inertia and free quantum spreadin...

Limiting Cases as Regime Architecture in Physics

Limiting cases are commonly treated either as mathematical operations on equations or as formal relations between successive theories. Neither treatment explains what makes a limit physically significant, how several operations cooperate in actual cases, or why limiting relations...

Constitutive Closure and the Cost of Observable Attribution in Quantum Measurement

The spectral measure of a Hamiltonian and the POVM implemented by an apparatus need not coincide. We formulate observable attribution relative to an apparatus class defined by its preparations, controls, ancillary couplings, memory, and readable records. For a nondegenerate qutri...