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1 day ago · The author presents an illuminating analogy with the so-called delayed double-slit experiment, which was first conceived by John Archibald Wheeler. Here the measurement that determines whether an electron behaves as particle or wave is delayed until after the electron has already passed the slit.
Jun 27, 2024 · Although retrocausality might be involved in QM in a number of ways, the focus here is on the delay-choice arguments popularized by John Archibald Wheeler.
3 days ago · — John Archibald Wheeler Understanding what is on the other side of all our reading and study is important to the humility I feel we should gain on the journey. Knowing more is the realization of knowing less about even more.
2 days ago · In an article entitled Law without Law, Wheeler hypothesised that the laws of nature, instead of being independent of time as is normally assumed, come into existence through a process of ‘observer-participancy’ involving intelligent observers, but he did not give a clear account of how such intelligence would function.
1 day ago · Dirac, with Werner Heisenberg, John Archibald Wheeler, Richard Feynman, and Freeman Dyson ultimately developed this concept into an invaluable tool for modern physics, used in the calculation of the properties of any physical system and a wide array of phenomena.
3 days ago · For Wheeler, hardship and happiness lay in her future, Upon the loss of Crater’s income, Wheeler lost hold of their Fifth Avenue apartment and lived off of an income of just $12 earned from...
5 days ago · From 1929 to 1936 she also taught in the Johns Hopkins summer school and pursued postgraduate studies at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Bob Hines and Rachel Carson. Bob Hines and Rachel Carson conducting research in Florida, 1952.
