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    <title>Magnetic Fields in Inertial Fusion Plasmas</title>
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  <summary>Literature review surveying magnetic field behaviour in inertial fusion plasmas, covering the contents of my Master's project.</summary>

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    <title>Is the “Many Worlds” Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics Metaphysics Instead of Physics?</title>
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  <summary>An essay I wrote in the third year of my undergraduate degree in philosophy and physics, arguing that the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics should not be relegated as solely metaphysics.</summary>

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    <title>On the Problem of Time in Quantum Mechanics</title>
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  <summary>My dissertation from my BSc in Philosophy and Physics, covering a formulation of time in quantum mechanics aimed at solving the problem of time.</summary>

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    <title>Does the Caesar Problem Prevent the Reduction of Arithmetic to Logic?</title>
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  <summary>An essay I wrote in the third year of my undergraduate degree in philosophy and physics, arguing that mathematics is fundamentally reducible to logic.</summary>

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    <title>Should We Be Eliminativists (mereological nihilists)?</title>
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  <summary>An essay I wrote in the first year of my undergraduate degree in philosophy and physics, arguing for mereological nihilism.</summary>

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