John Wheeler - Work with Richard Feynman (49/130)

[@cycochaos2]

Truly blows my mind how the titans of physics all managed to come together and converse, almost casually figuring out the order of the universe and everything in it

[@ShermerHighSchool]

Feynman : What do you think we should do about this idea? Wheeler : Well, we could run it by Einstein. Feynman : Sounds good. Is he home? Shall we call him first? Wheeler : Nah. Let's just walk up there and see if he's free to discuss this. (mind blown) Can you imagine just casually go up to Einstein's house to discuss physics? To me, it's like Hitchcock and Spielberg went to see Kubrick to ask him what he thought about one scene. The LEVEL of GENIUS POWER in that house, that day, is hard to comprehend.

[@bluemonstrosity259]

Intelligence level over 9000

[@gokurocks9]

Feynman and Wheeler, just walk on over to mention this idea to Einstein, Brilliant...

[@kierdel_494]

I can't understand why Wheeler hasn't got Nobel Prize.

[@walterbishop3668]

What a gentleman Wheeler is.

[@susilgunaratne4267]

Great physicists, "Physicist of the Physicists" having mentored more than 45 PHD students at Princeton University. Many contributions to the development of physics in the last century.

[@victoriaporozova]

Wheeler was brilliant physicist!

[@victoriaporozova]

Madematician yes, I am. More in quantum computer physics (interface between ultracold atoms and light)

[@of8155]

Hi sister

[@of8155]

I am 15 year old teen here for the love of Physics

[@pepperjack8]

Feynman and Wheeler, just walked around corner to meet Einstein.

[@colonelkurtz2269]

Albert Einstein made contributions to physics. His brother Frank made a monster.

[@Mike-gi7tc]

Kind of like asking why, when you open your door does the wind blow in but not before

[@rodschmidt8952]

That's because of the Pauli exclusion principle, of course

[@cameron1004]

What is he talking about with the radiation and 1 million years?

[@theadityatamar]

This was the origins of the idea of an "electron travelling backwards in time" i.e positrons which later became a crucial component of Feynman's formulation of Quantum Electrodynamics that he presented at Pocono.

[@theadityatamar]

This was the origins of the idea of an "electron travelling backwards in time" i.e positrons which later became a crucial component of Feynman's formulation of Quantum Electrodynamics that he presented at Pocono.

[@keithwald5349]

Let's say a charge here interacts with a charge a million light years away (like part of a star, say). That means it takes this charge's radiation a million years (traveling at the speed of light) to reach that far away charge and excite it, causing it to re-radiate energy. This re-radiated energy then takes another million years to travel back to the first charge. So the first charge waited 2 million years (round trip) to feel the radiative interaction with the far away charge. That is the conventional story. The modification he's referring to is the Wheeler-Feynman action at a distance theory of classical electrodynamics, which uses both advanced (backward in time) and retarded (delayed in time, "normal") potentials. You can google it.

[@chaulachaulaya5259]

I came here after TENET to revise

[@Frisbieinstein]

They came up with possibly the most far out physics ever.

[@thefakenewsnetwork8072]

Long live freedom and democratic equality

[@philldaskydiver]

Came here after TENET

[@SA-ff9uc]

Even a 2x speed he speaks too slowly.

[@ericmeacham9532]

Pre-quantum entanglement era....

[@excavator69931]

Nope its QED

[@ericmeacham9532]

Heisenberg-SchrodingerEmc2 , right - “spooky action “ , I agree that Einstein theorized it long before anyone else. This is not what Wheeler is talking about, that’s what you’re saying?