Between Quantum and Cosmos: Studies and Essays in Honor of John Archibald Wheeler

Published by Princeton University Press 1988

Between Quantum and Cosmos

Studies and Essays in Honor of John Archibald Wheeler

Edited by: Alwyn Van der Merwe , Wojciech Hubert Zurek and Warner Allen Miller

Volume 5042 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400886975

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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 quotes 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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
John Archibald Wheeler: A Few Highlights of His Contributions to Physics Kip S. Thorne and Wojciech H. Zurek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Early Estimates of the Strength of the Nuclear Spin-Orbit Force H. H. Barschall and Louis Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Momentum Projection of Solitons Including Quantum Corrections Lawrence Wilets Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
An S Matrix Theory for Classical Nonlinear Physics J. Glimm and D. H. Sharp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
Some Generalizations of the Virial Theorem Edward Teller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
Does the Topology of Space Fluctuate? Arlen Anderson and Bryce DeWitt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
Barrier Penetration and Initial Values in Kaluza-Klein Theories Dieter R. Brill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
Obvious, Incredible ... V. Ν. Lukash and I. D. Novikov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
Professor Wheeler and the Crack of Doom: Closed Cosmologies in the 5-d Kaluza-Klein Theory Richard A. Matzner and Anthony Mezzacappa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
Gravitation and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Jacob D. Bekenstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
The Birth of Time J. Géhéniau and I. Prigogine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Black Holes and Quantum Coherence Robert M. Wald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Thermal Ambience Relative to an Accelerated Frame Ulrich H. Gerlach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
Test of the Gravitomagnetic Field via Laser-Ranged Satellites Ignazio Ciufolini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
Static Electromagnetic Geon Marek Demianski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
The Geometrodynamic Content of the Regge Equations as Illuminated by the Boundary of a Boundary Principle Warner Allen Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Canonical Geometrodynamics and General Covariance Karel V. Kuchař Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Boundary Terms in the Action Principles of General Relativity James W. York Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
Bianchi Identities and the Automatic Conservation of Energy-Momentum and Angular Momentum in General-Relativistic Field Theories Friedrich W. Hehl and J. Dermott McCrea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
The Boundary of a Boundary Principle: A Unified Approach Arkady Kheyfets Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	284
The Gravitational Field at Spatial Infinity Matthew Alexander and Peter G. Bergmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	300
Gravitational Radiation Reaction on the Motion of Particles in General Relativity P. A. Hogan and I. Robinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Equivalent Lagrangians in Classical Field Theory Sergio Hojman and L. C. Shepley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	322
p-Form Electrodynamics Marc Henneaux and Claudio Teitelboim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	340
General Covariance and Quantum Theory Bahram Mashhoon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	366
Steering the Universe James Isenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	384
On Observing the Absence of an Atom R. H. Dicke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	400
How to Evade the Confrontation with the Uncertainty Relations V. B. Braginsky and F. Ya. Khalili Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	408
Are the Quantum Rules Exact? The Case of the Imperfect Measurements Bernard d’Espagnat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
The Problems in Quantum Foundations in the Light of Gauge Theories Yuval Ne’eman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	424
Joint Wigner Distribution for Spin-1/2 Particles Leon Cohen and Marian O. Scully Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	442
Wedges I Cécile DeWitt-Morette, Stephen G. Low, Lawrence S. Schulman and Anwar Y. Shiekh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	459
The Measurement of Quantum Noise Reduction in Squeezed States W. G. Unruh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	499
Quantum Mechanics without Probability Amplitudes William K. Wootters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	507
Quantum Mechanical Computers Richard P. Feynman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	523
Computability and Physical Theories Robert Geroch and James B. Hartle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	549
Computation and Physics: Wheeler’s Meaning Circuit? Rolf Landauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	568
On Wheeler's Notion of “Law without Law” in Physics David Deutsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	583
Existence of “Free Will” as a Problem of Physics Asher Peres Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	592
On the Nature and Origin of Complexity in Discrete, Homogeneous, Locally-Interacting Systems Charles H. Bennett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	605
Descriptions of Plates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	614