...We discuss the relation between of the debate on the interpretation of quantum mechanics and the search for a quantum theory of gravity, from its beginnings in the 1950s and 60s (Léon Rosenfeld’s rejection of the quantum gravity program, John Wheeler’s temporary endorsement of the Everett...

...Fig. 8.2 Table of contents from the first term of John Wheeler’s course on advanced quantum mechanics, 1953–4. Source: JAWP, Box 81. Fig. 8.3 Table of contents (page 2) from the first term of John Wheeler’s course on advanced quantum mechanics, 1953–4. Image source...

... Bank Riley Joseph G Tennis desegregation White Nathaniel B Williams Joe Cold War Robert F. Williams Louis Austin Carolina Times Brown v. Board of Education Luther Hodges Pearsall Plan John Wheeler desegregation sit-in As the Brown decision ushered in the era of the modern...

... in information signaling. Addressing the idea of information, this chapter argues that information takes on a dual nature, both as material substance and as an element that conveys mental intentionality. Comparisons are drawn with contemporary Western ideas of information, using physicist John Wheeler’s seminal...