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Cambridge
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English
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721

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Quantum theory, Cosmology
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John Archibald Wheeler (1911-)

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Table of Contents

PART I. AN OVERVIEW OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER
John Archibald Wheeler and the clash of ides -- Paul C.W. Davies -- PART II. AN HISTORIAN'S TRIBUTE TO JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER AND SCIENTIFIC SPECULATION THROUGHT THE AGES
The heritage of Heraclitus: John Archiblad Wheeler and the itch to speculate -- Jaroslav Pelikan -- PART III. QUANTUM REALITY: THEORY
Why is nature described by quantum theory? -- Lucien Hardy
Thought-experiments in honor of John Archibald Wheeler -- Freeman J. Dyson
It from qubit -- David Deutsch
The wave function: it or bit? -- H. Dieter Zeh
Quantum Darwinism and envariance -- Wojciech H. Zurek
Using qubits to learn about "it" -- Juan Pablo Paz
Quantum gravity as an ordinary gauge theory -- Juan M. Maldacena
The Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics -- Bryce S. DeWitt -- PART IV. QUANTUM REALITY: EXPERIMENT
Why the quantum? "It" from "bit"? A participatory universe? Three far-reaching challenges from John Archibald Wheeler and their relation to experiment -- Anton Zeilinger
Speakable and unspeakable, past and future -- Aephraim M. Steinberg
Conceptual tensions between quantum mechanics and general relativity: are there experimental consequences? -- Raymond Y. Chiao
Breeding nonlocal Schrödinger cats: a thought-experiment to explore the quantum-classical boundary -- Serge Haroche
Quantum erasing the nature of reality: or, perhaps, the reality of nature? -- Paul G. Kwiat, -- Berthold-Georg Englert
Quantum feedback and the quantum-classical transition -- Hideo Mabuchi
What quantum computers may tell us about quantum mechanics -- Christopher R. Monroe -- PART V. BIG QUESTIONS IN COSMOLOGY
Cosmic inflation and the arrow of time -- Andreas Albrecht
Cosmology and immutability -- John D. Barrow
Inflation, quantum cosmology, and the anthropic principle -- Andrei Linde
Parallel universes -- Max Tegmark
Quantum theories of gravity: results and prospects -- Lee Smolin
A genuinely evolving universe -- João Magueijo
Planck-scale models of the universe -- Fotini Markopoulou
Implications of additional spatial dimensions for questions in cosmology -- Lisa Randall -- PART VI. EMERGENCE, LIFE, AND RELATED TOPICS
Emergence: us from it -- Philip D. Clayton
True complexity and its associated ontology -- George F.R. Ellis
The three origins: cosmos, life, and mind -- Marcelo Gleiser
Autonomous agents -- Stuart Kauffman
To see a world in a grain of sand -- Shou-Cheng Zhang -- Appendix A:
Science and ultimate reality program committees -- -- Appendix B:
Young researchers competition in honor of John Archibald Wheeler for physics graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and young faculty.

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"part of a special program, Science and Ultimate Reality, developed in honor of ... John Archibald Wheeler."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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QC174.12 .S4 2004

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xx, 721 p. :
Number of pages
721

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OL15582368M
ISBN 10
052183113X
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2003055903
OCLC/WorldCat
53013309
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