Автор: Paul Halpern
Название: The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality
Издательство: Basic Books
Год: 2017
ISBN: 9780465097586; 0465097588
Язык: English
Формат: epub
Размер: 16 mb
Страниц: 336
In 1939, Richard Feynman, a brilliant graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant. A lifelong friendship and enormously productive collaboration was born, despite sharp differences in personality. The soft-spoken Wheeler, though conservative in appearance, was a raging nonconformist full of wild ideas about the universe. The boisterous Feynman was a cautious physicist who believed only what could be tested. Yet they were complementary spirits. Their collaboration led to a complete rethinking of the nature of time and reality. It enabled Feynman to show how quantum reality is a combination of alternative, contradictory possibilities, and inspired Wheeler to develop his landmark concept of wormholes, portals to the future and past. Together, Feynman and Wheeler made sure that quantum physics would never be the same again.
INTRODUCTION A Revolution in Time
CHAPTER ONE Wheeler’s Watch
CHAPTER TWO The Only Particle in the Universe
CHAPTER THREE All the Roads Not to Paradise
CHAPTER FOUR The Hidden Paths of Ghosts
CHAPTER FIVE The Island and the Mountains: Mapping the Particle Landscape
CHAPTER SIX Life as an Amoeba in the Foamy Sea of Possibilities
CHAPTER SEVEN Time’s Arrow and the Mysterious Mr. X
CHAPTER EIGHT Minds, Machines, and the Cosmos
CONCLUSION The Way of the Labyrinth
EPILOGUE Encounters with Wheeler
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Paul Halpern
Further Reading
Notes
Index
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