Between Quantum and Cosmos : : Studies and Essays in Honor of John Archibald Wheeler / / ed. by Alwyn Van der Merwe, Wojciech Hubert Zurek, Warner Allen Miller.

• MitwirkendeR: Alexander, Matthew,; Anderson, Arlen,; Barschall, H. H.,; Bekenstein, Jacob D.,; Bennett, Charles H.,; Bergmann, Peter G.,; Braginsky, V. B.,; Brill, Dieter R.,; Brown, Louis,; Ciufolini, Ignazio,; Cohen, Leon,; DeWitt, Bryce,; DeWitt-Morette, Cécile,; Demianski, Marek,; Deutsch, David,; Dicke, R. H.,; Feynman, Richard P.,; Gerlach, Ulrich H.,; Geroch, Robert,; Glimm, J.,; Géhéniau, J.,; Hartle, James B.,; Hehl, Friedrich W.,; Henneaux, Marc,; Hogan, P. A.,; Hojman, Sergio,; Isenberg, James,; Khalili, F. Ya.,; Kheyfets, Arkady,; Kuchař, Karel V.,; Landauer, Rolf,; Low, Stephen G.,; Lukash, V. Ν.,; Mashhoon, Bahram,; Matzner, Richard A.,; McCrea, J. Dermott,; Mezzacappa, Anthony,; Miller, Warner Allen,; Ne’eman, Yuval,; Novikov, I. D.,; Peres, Asher,; Prigogine, I.,; Robinson, I.,; Schulman, Lawrence S.,; Scully, Marian O.,; Sharp, D. H.,; Shepley, L. C.,; Shiekh, Anwar Y.,; Teitelboim, Claudio,; Teller, Edward,; Thorne, Kip S.,; Unruh, W. G.,; Wald, Robert M.,; Wilets, Lawrence,; Wootters, William K.,; York, James W.,; Zurek, Wojciech H.,; d’Espagnat, Bernard,
• HerausgeberIn: Miller, Warner Allen,; Van der Merwe, Alwyn,; Zurek, Wojciech Hubert,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 5042
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (636 p.)

The forty papers collected here honor one of the great scientists of our time--John Archibald Wheeler. In this volume are gathered the six issues of the journal Foundations of Physics (February through July 1986) that celebrate his seventy-fifth birthday. Enlivened by Professor Wheeler's celebrated drawings, the book captures and illuminates his many contributions to physics, including his discovery of the scattering matrix and his elucidation, with Niels Bohr, of the mechanism of nuclear fission, his many contributions to Einstein's theory of gravity (for instance, the black hole), his deep insights into quantum theory and measurement (the elementary quantum phenomenon), and his efforts to explain the origins of the quantum postulate and quantum gravity (the meaning circuit and the Wheeler-DeWitt Equation). The majority of the papers reflect and build on Professor Wheeler's revolutionary ideas. Many scientists are convinced that his insights into the foundation of modern-day physics will induce a profound change in our perception of the universe. This book will appeal to scientists and philosophers who wish to look at one man's rendering of the "big picture" through the eyes of his colleagues. The work is prefaced by a compilation of "es from Professor Wheeler, edited by Kip S. Thorne and Wojciech Zurek. The contributors to Between Quantum and Cosmos are M. Alexander, A. Anderson, H. H. Barschall, J. D. Bekenstein, C. H. Bennett, P. G. Bergmann, V. B. Braginsky, D. R. Brill, L. Brown, I. Ciufolini, L. Cohen, M. Demianski, D. Deutsch, B. DeWitt, C. DeWitt-Morette, R. H. Dicke, B. d'Espagnat, R. P. Feynman, J. Geheniau, U. H. Gerlach, R. Geroch, J. Glimm, J. B. Hartle, F. W. Hehl, M. Henneaux, P. A. Hogan, S. Hojman, J. Isenberg, F. Ya. Khalili, A. Kheyfets, K. V. Kuchar, R. Landauer, S. G. Low, V. N. Lukash, B. Mashhoon, R. A. Matzner, J. D. McCrea, A. Mezzacappa, W. A. Miller, Y. Ne'eman, I. D. Novikov, A. Peres, I. Prigogine, I. Robinson, L. S. Schulman, M. O. Scully, D. H. Sharp, L. C. Shepley, A. Y. Shiekh, C. Teitelboim, E. Teller, K. S. Thorne, W. G. Unruh, R. M. Wald, L. Wilets, W. K. Wootters, J. W. York, Jr., and W. H. Zurek.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- John Archibald Wheeler: A Few Highlights of His Contributions to Physics -- Early Estimates of the Strength of the Nuclear Spin-Orbit Force -- Momentum Projection of Solitons Including Quantum Corrections -- An S Matrix Theory for Classical Nonlinear Physics -- Some Generalizations of the Virial Theorem -- Does the Topology of Space Fluctuate? -- Barrier Penetration and Initial Values in Kaluza-Klein Theories -- Obvious, Incredible ... -- Professor Wheeler and the Crack of Doom: Closed Cosmologies in the 5-d Kaluza-Klein Theory -- Gravitation and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking -- The Birth of Time -- Black Holes and Quantum Coherence -- Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Thermal Ambience Relative to an Accelerated Frame -- Test of the Gravitomagnetic Field via Laser-Ranged Satellites -- Static Electromagnetic Geon -- The Geometrodynamic Content of the Regge Equations as Illuminated by the Boundary of a Boundary Principle -- Canonical Geometrodynamics and General Covariance -- Boundary Terms in the Action Principles of General Relativity -- Bianchi Identities and the Automatic Conservation of Energy-Momentum and Angular Momentum in General-Relativistic Field Theories -- The Boundary of a Boundary Principle: A Unified Approach -- The Gravitational Field at Spatial Infinity -- Gravitational Radiation Reaction on the Motion of Particles in General Relativity -- Equivalent Lagrangians in Classical Field Theory -- p-Form Electrodynamics -- General Covariance and Quantum Theory -- Steering the Universe -- On Observing the Absence of an Atom -- How to Evade the Confrontation with the Uncertainty Relations -- Are the Quantum Rules Exact? The Case of the Imperfect Measurements -- The Problems in Quantum Foundations in the Light of Gauge Theories -- Joint Wigner Distribution for Spin-1/2 Particles -- Wedges I -- The Measurement of Quantum Noise Reduction in Squeezed States -- Quantum Mechanics without Probability Amplitudes -- Quantum Mechanical Computers -- Computability and Physical Theories -- Computation and Physics: Wheeler’s Meaning Circuit? -- On Wheeler's Notion of “Law without Law” in Physics -- Existence of “Free Will” as a Problem of Physics -- On the Nature and Origin of Complexity in Discrete, Homogeneous, Locally-Interacting Systems -- Descriptions of Plates