The Quantum Labyrinth - Paul Halpern
The Quantum Labyrinth - Paul Halpern The story of the unlikely friendship between the two physicists who fundamentally recast the notion of time and historyIn 1939, Richard Feynman, a brilliant…
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The Quantum Labyrinth - Paul Halpern
The story of the unlikely friendship between the two physicists who fundamentally recast the notion of time and historyIn 1939, Richard Feynman, a brilliant graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant. The soft-spoken Wheeler, though conservative in appearance, was a raging nonconformist full of wild ideas about the universe. A lifelong friendship and enormously productive collaboration was born, despite sharp differences in personality.
Yet they were complementary spirits. The boisterous Feynman was a cautious physicist who believed only what could be tested. 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