John Archibald Wheeler

Physiker

Basiswissen

John Archibald Wheeler (1911 bis 2008) war ein US-amerikanischer Physiker. Er prägte die Begriffe Quantenschaum (quantum foam) und Wurmloch (wormhole) sowie „participatory universe“ [1], auf Deutsch => partizipatorisches Universum

Fußnoten

[1] John Archibald Wheeler: Information, physics, quantum: The search for links. In: Zurek, Wojciech Hubert (ed.). Complexity, Entropy, and the Physics of Information. 1990. Redwood City, California: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-201-51509-1. (Definition von "participatory universe" auf Seite 5).

[2] John Archibald Wheeler, Einstein's Vision. Springer Verlag. Berlin. 1968.

[3] John Archibald Wheeler: From Relativity to Mutability. In: Physicist's Conception of Nature 1972, ed. J. Mehra, Dordrecht: Reidel, 1973, pp. 202-47.

[4] John Archibald Wheeler: The Universe as Home for Man. In: The Nature of Scientific Discovery, ed. O. Gingerich, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1975, pp. 261-96.

[5] John Archibald Wheeler: Genesis and Observership. In: Foundational Problems in the Special Sciences, Eds. R. Butts and J. Hintikka, Dordrecht: Reidel, 1977, pp. 1-33.

[6] John Archibald Wheeler: The Quantum and the Universe. In: Relativity, Quanta, and Cosmology in the Development of the Scientific Thought of Albert Einstein, ed. M. Pantaleo and F. de Finis, 807-25. New York: Johnson Reprint, 1979.

[7] John Archibald Wheeler: On Recognising Law without Law. In: American Journal of Physics 51, 1983 pp. 394-404.

[8] John Archibald Wheeler: Bohr's 'Phenomenon' and 'Law Without Law' In : G. Casati (ed) Chaotic Behaviour in Quantum Systems. Theory and Applications. Proceedings NATO Achievements, 1985, pp. 363-78.

[9] John Archibald Wheeler: How Come the Quantum? In: New Techniques and Ideas in Quantum Measurement Theory, ed. D. M. Greenberger. New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1987, pp. 304

[10] John Archibald Wheeler: World as a System Self-Synthesized by Quantum Networking. In: IBM Journal of Research and Development 32, 1988, pp. 4-15.

[11] John Archibald Wheeler, At Home in the Universe. New York: American Institute of Physics, 1994.

[12] John Archibald Wheeler: Time Today. In J. J. Haliwell, J. Pe'rez-Mercader, W. H. Zurek (Eds.) Physical Origins of Time Asymmetry, Cambridge University Press, 1994[2], pp. 1-29.