
The Quantum Labyrinth
How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality
Paul Halpern(Author)
Basic Books (Publisher)
Published on 26. October 2017
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-465-09758-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
10 Halftones, black & white
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
550 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-465-09758-6 (9780465097586)
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The Quantum Labyrinth
How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality
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Paul Halpern is a professor of physics at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, and the author of fifteen popular science books, most recently Einstein's Dice and Schroedinger's Cat. He lives near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.