• WheelerFeynman absorber theory (also called the WheelerFeynman time-symmetric theory), named after its originators, the physicists Richard Feynman and...
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    and John Robert Schrieffer in 1957. Feynman, inspired by a desire to quantize the WheelerFeynman absorber theory of electrodynamics, laid the groundwork...
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    desire to obtain a quantum-mechanical formulation for the WheelerFeynman absorber theory using a Lagrangian (rather than a Hamiltonian) as a starting...
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  • theory was inspired by the WheelerFeynman absorber theory for electrodynamics. When Richard Feynman, as a graduate student, lectured on the Wheeler–Feynman...
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    quantum mechanics Topological quantum field theory Ward–Takahashi identity WheelerFeynman absorber theory Wigner's classification Wigner's theorem Peskin...
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  • slightly nervous presentation of his graduate work on the WheelerFeynman absorber theory in front of Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Pauli, Henry Norris Russell...
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  • Feynman sprinkler Heaviside–Feynman formula Hellmann–Feynman theorem Stückelberg–Feynman interpretation WheelerFeynman absorber theory 7495 Feynman,...
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    Field energy and field momentum Electromagnetic mass (ref. to WheelerFeynman absorber theory) The motion of charges in electric and magnetic fields The...
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    Riemann–Silberstein vector Spacetime algebra WheelerFeynman absorber theory Electric and magnetic fields, according to the theory of relativity, are the components...
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  • The Bethe–Feynman efficiency formula, a simple method for calculating the yield of a fission bomb, was first derived in 1943 after development in 1942...
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    World War II. Wheeler also worked with Niels Bohr to explain the basic principles of nuclear fission. Together with Gregory Breit, Wheeler developed the...
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  • Transactional interpretation (category Quantum field theory)
    explored in the WheelerFeynman absorber theory. Cramer revived their idea of two waves for his transactional interpretation of quantum theory. While the ordinary...
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  • One-electron universe (category Richard Feynman)
    universe postulate, proposed by theoretical physicist John Wheeler in a telephone call to Richard Feynman in the spring of 1940, is the hypothesis that all electrons...
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    Magnetoquasistatic field Optics Relativistic electromagnetism WheelerFeynman absorber theory Meyer, Herbert (1972). A History of Electricity and Magnetism...
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    issue without a theory of quantum gravity to join quantum mechanics and general relativity into a completely unified theory.: 150  The theory of general relativity...
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  • is an interpretation of quantum mechanics inspired by the WheelerFeynman absorber theory. It describes the collapse of the wave function as resulting...
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  • derived from the Darwin Lagrangian but later vindicated by the WheelerFeynman absorber theory and eventually quantum electrodynamics. The Breit equation...
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  • American biographical film about the romantic life of physicist Richard Feynman. Feynman was played by Matthew Broderick, who also directed and co-produced...
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    Quantum electrodynamics (category Quantum field theory)
    Schwinger–Dyson equation Vacuum polarization Vertex function WheelerFeynman absorber theory R. P. Feynman (1949). "Space–Time Approach to Quantum Electrodynamics"...
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  • understanding that came with knowledge of Minkowski geometry and the special theory of relativity, that the notion of causality can be used as a prior foundation...
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  • Challenger Disaster) is a 2013 TV movie starring William Hurt about Richard Feynman's investigation into the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. The film...
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  • far field Quantum teleportation SETI Institute Synchronicity WheelerFeynman absorber theory Perkowitz, Sidney (2011). Slow Light: Invisibility, Teleportation...
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    descriptions of the electromagnetic field Weber electrodynamics WheelerFeynman absorber theory Fundamental physical aspects of classical electrodynamics are...
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  • In quantum mechanics, the Hellmann–Feynman theorem relates the derivative of the total energy with respect to a parameter to the expectation value of...
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    particle's jerk and to the square of its charge. The WheelerFeynman absorber theory is a more advanced theory, applicable in a relativistic and quantum environment...
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  • Faster-than-light (category Theory of relativity)
    Intergalactic travel Krasnikov tube Slow light Variable speed of light WheelerFeynman absorber theory Gravitational lens Event horizon of a black hole "Quantum-tunnelling...
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    calculations. Feynman diagrams have revolutionized nearly every aspect of theoretical physics." While the diagrams apply primarily to quantum field theory, they...
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  • symmetry with the WheelerFeynman absorber theory by Richard Feynman and John Archibald Wheeler and with the time-symmetric theories of Kenneth B. Wharton...
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  • cryptography Quantum nonlocality Heisenberg uncertainty principle WheelerFeynman absorber theory Bennett, Charles H.; Brassard, Gilles; Crépeau, Claude; Jozsa...
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  • Tachyon (category String theory)
    luxon Retrocausality Tachyonic antitelephone Virtual particle WheelerFeynman absorber theory Tipler, Paul A.; Llewellyn, Ralph A. (2008). Modern Physics...
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