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.
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 celebr...
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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
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