Between quantum and cosmos : studies and essays in honor of John Archibald Wheeler / edited by Wojciech Hubert Zurek, Alwyn van der Merwe, Warner Allen Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zurek, Wojciech Hubert, editor.

Van der Merwe, Alwyn, editor.

Miller, Warner Allen, editor.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physics.

Quantum theory.

Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008.

Wheeler, John Archibald.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (636 pages, 41 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

John Archibald Wheeler: A Few Highlights of His Contributions to Physics / Thorne, Kip S. / Zurek, Wojciech H.

Early Estimates of the Strength of the Nuclear Spin-Orbit Force / Barschall, H. H. / Brown, Louis

Momentum Projection of Solitons Including Quantum Corrections / Wilets, Lawrence

An S Matrix Theory for Classical Nonlinear Physics / Glimm, J. / Sharp, D. H.

Some Generalizations of the Virial Theorem / Teller, Edward

Does the Topology of Space Fluctuate? / Anderson, Arlen / DeWitt, Bryce

Barrier Penetration and Initial Values in Kaluza-Klein Theories / Brill, Dieter R.

Obvious, Incredible ... / Lukash, V. Ν. / Novikov, I. D.

Professor Wheeler and the Crack of Doom: Closed Cosmologies in the 5-d Kaluza-Klein Theory / Matzner, Richard A. / Mezzacappa, Anthony

Gravitation and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking / Bekenstein, Jacob D.

The Birth of Time / Géhéniau, J. / Prigogine, I.

Black Holes and Quantum Coherence / Wald, Robert M.

Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Thermal Ambience Relative to an Accelerated Frame / Gerlach, Ulrich H.

Test of the Gravitomagnetic Field via Laser-Ranged Satellites / Ciufolini, Ignazio

Static Electromagnetic Geon / Demianski, Marek

The Geometrodynamic Content of the Regge Equations as Illuminated by the Boundary of a Boundary Principle / Miller, Warner Allen

Canonical Geometrodynamics and General Covariance / Kuchař, Karel V.

Boundary Terms in the Action Principles of General Relativity / York, James W.

Bianchi Identities and the Automatic Conservation of Energy-Momentum and Angular Momentum in General-Relativistic Field Theories / Hehl, Friedrich W. / McCrea, J. Dermott

The Boundary of a Boundary Principle: A Unified Approach / Kheyfets, Arkady

The Gravitational Field at Spatial Infinity / Alexander, Matthew / Bergmann, Peter G.

Gravitational Radiation Reaction on the Motion of Particles in General Relativity / Hogan, P. A. / Robinson, I.

Equivalent Lagrangians in Classical Field Theory / Hojman, Sergio / Shepley, L. C.

p-Form Electrodynamics / Henneaux, Marc / Teitelboim, Claudio

General Covariance and Quantum Theory / Mashhoon, Bahram

Steering the Universe / Isenberg, James

On Observing the Absence of an Atom / Dicke, R. H.

How to Evade the Confrontation with the Uncertainty Relations / Braginsky, V. B. / Khalili, F. Ya.

Are the Quantum Rules Exact? The Case of the Imperfect Measurements / d'Espagnat, Bernard

The Problems in Quantum Foundations in the Light of Gauge Theories / Ne'eman, Yuval

Joint Wigner Distribution for Spin-1/2 Particles / Cohen, Leon / Scully, Marian O.

Wedges I / DeWitt-Morette, Cécile / Low, Stephen G. / Schulman, Lawrence S. / Shiekh, Anwar Y.

The Measurement of Quantum Noise Reduction in Squeezed States / Unruh, W. G.

Quantum Mechanics without Probability Amplitudes / Wootters, William K.

Quantum Mechanical Computers / Feynman, Richard P.

Computability and Physical Theories / Geroch, Robert / Hartle, James B.

Computation and Physics: Wheeler's Meaning Circuit? / Landauer, Rolf

On Wheeler's Notion of "Law without Law" in Physics / Deutsch, David

Existence of "Free Will" as a Problem of Physics / Peres, Asher

On the Nature and Origin of Complexity in Discrete, Homogeneous, Locally-Interacting Systems / Bennett, Charles H.

Descriptions of Plates

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

9780691629957

0691629951

9780691605548

0691605548

OCLC:

1004875439