Geon Wheeler: from nuclear to spacetime physicist

IF 0.8 4区物理与天体物理 Q2 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

The European Physical Journal H Pub Date : 2018-06-25 DOI:10.1140/epjh/e2018-80053-x

Dean Rickles

引用次数: 5

Abstract

We provide an account of John Wheeler’s transition from his work on elementary particle physics (in which particles provided the ultimate ontology in his worldview), to his work on gravitation and general relativity (in which spacetime geometry was the ultimate object out of which all other things were composed). We also describe his early work on quantum gravity largely as a long-standing attempt to derive the elementary particles from spacetime structure.

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吉恩·惠勒:从核物理学家到时空物理学家

我们提供了约翰·惠勒从他的基本粒子物理学(粒子在他的世界观中提供了最终的本体论)到他的引力和广义相对论(时空几何是所有其他事物组成的最终对象)的工作转变的描述。我们还将他早期在量子引力方面的工作描述为从时空结构中推导基本粒子的长期尝试。

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The European Physical Journal H HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE-PHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

CiteScore

1.60

自引率

10.00%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： The purpose of this journal is to catalyse, foster, and disseminate an awareness and understanding of the historical development of ideas in contemporary physics, and more generally, ideas about how Nature works. The scope explicitly includes: - Contributions addressing the history of physics and of physical ideas and concepts, the interplay of physics and mathematics as well as the natural sciences, and the history and philosophy of sciences, together with discussions of experimental ideas and designs - inasmuch as they clearly relate, and preferably add, to the understanding of modern physics. - Annotated and/or contextual translations of relevant foreign-language texts. - Careful characterisations of old and/or abandoned ideas including past mistakes and false leads, thereby helping working physicists to assess how compelling contemporary ideas may turn out to be in future, i.e. with hindsight.