The quantum labyrinth : how Richard Feynman and John Wheeler revolutionized time and reality /

The quantum labyrinth : how Richard Feynman and John Wheeler revolutionized time and reality / Paul Halpern, PhD.

"In Fall 1939, Richard Feynman, a brash and brilliant recent graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant. The prim and proper Wheeler timed their interaction with a watch placed on the table. Feynman caught on, and for the next m...

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Main Author: Halpern, Paul, 1961- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Feynman, Richard P. > (Richard Phillips), > 1918-1988.
Wheeler, John Archibald, > 1911-2008.
Feynman, Richard Phillips, > 1918-1988.
Quantum theory.
Time.
Space and time.
Reality.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A revolution in time
  • Wheeler's watch
  • The only particle in the universe
  • All the roads not to paradise
  • The hidden paths of ghosts
  • The island and the mountains: mapping the particle landscape
  • Life as an amoeba in the foamy sea of possibilities
  • Time's arrow and the mysterious Mr. X
  • Minds, machines, and the cosmos
  • Conclusion: The way of the labyrinth
  • Epilogue: Encounters with Wheeler.

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