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At home in the universe / John Archibald Wheeler.

By: Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Masters of modern physics ; v. 9.Publisher: New York : American Institute of Physics, c1994Description: vi, 371 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0883188627.Subject(s): Science | PhysicsDDC classification: 500
Contents:
Science Smiles -- A septet of sibyls: aids in the search for truth -- Genesis and observership -- Our universe: the known and the unknown -- Elan and Morale -- The morale of research people -- Be the best to give the most -- To Nicolaus Copernicus -- To Joseph Henry -- The spirit of colleagueship at Princeton -- Bohr and Einstein -- Niels Bohr and nuclear physics -- Delayed-choice experiments and the Bohr-Einsteins dialogue -- The outsider -- To Albert Einstein -- No fugitive and cloistered virtue -- Einstein and other seekers of the wider view -- More Greats -- Maria Sklodowska Curie and the world of the small -- Hermann Weyl and the unity of knowledge -- Hendrik Anthony Kramers -- Hideki Yukawa as uniquely ecumenical -- From Half-life to human life -- Dealing with risk -- To Benjamin Franklin -- Science and survival -- The place of science in modern life -- Beyond the black hole -- Beyond the black hole -- It from bit.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Colleague of Einstein and Bohr, pioneer of nuclear fission theory, and champion of the theory of black holes, Wheeler has made significant contributions to atomic and nuclear physics, elementary-particle physics, relativity theory, cosmology, and astrophysics. This collection of essays is a mix of reminiscence, science, and conjecture. He writes of debates with Bohr, talks with Einstein, other friends and collaborators, and great physicists who exemplify the scientific spirit. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-361) and index.

Science Smiles -- A septet of sibyls: aids in the search for truth -- Genesis and observership -- Our universe: the known and the unknown -- Elan and Morale -- The morale of research people -- Be the best to give the most -- To Nicolaus Copernicus -- To Joseph Henry -- The spirit of colleagueship at Princeton -- Bohr and Einstein -- Niels Bohr and nuclear physics -- Delayed-choice experiments and the Bohr-Einsteins dialogue -- The outsider -- To Albert Einstein -- No fugitive and cloistered virtue -- Einstein and other seekers of the wider view -- More Greats -- Maria Sklodowska Curie and the world of the small -- Hermann Weyl and the unity of knowledge -- Hendrik Anthony Kramers -- Hideki Yukawa as uniquely ecumenical -- From Half-life to human life -- Dealing with risk -- To Benjamin Franklin -- Science and survival -- The place of science in modern life -- Beyond the black hole -- Beyond the black hole -- It from bit.

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CHOICE Review

Wheeler is one of the most original and creative physicists of the 20th century. His contributions, spanning some 50 years, range from nuclear physics to relativity and cosmology. In addition, he has helped to raise and partially answer several questions fundamental to both philosophy and physics. This collection of approximately 25 essays, short papers, and talks runs the gamut of his reflections, and gives us insights into the thinking and personalities of people such as Einstein, Bohr, and Weyl. Wheeler writes with flair, charm, and clarity. He often makes accessible ideas that are subtle and complex. The discussions of delayed choice experiments (where the present helps to determine the past), the "anthropic principle" (where the character of the universe, at least in part, is determined by observers), and of the nature of reality (the Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky paradox and how quantum mechanics seems to be at variance with common sense) are all just a tad too short; one's appetite is whetted, but not satisfied. The biographic material is similarly compact; often, in a few pages, a feeling for the person emerges, but the reader invariably wishes for more. A thought-provoking and wide-ranging volume that belongs in all college libraries. All levels. K. L. Schick; Union College (NY)

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