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 celebr...

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