Talk:Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory
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any links to papers..?
jjalexand@yahoo.com 5-Jun-2006: Understanding: Surely if each particle's position and motion is fully defined by the position and motion of all other particles ('in some light cone'), then all particles' motions in the future are fully predictable, and the future is fully predictable (within quantum limits?). Is this really so 'fantastic'.
- The point is that the current motions of a particle, such an electron in an atom, including all its electromagnetic emission and absorption events, depends symmetrically on the past and future light cones. It's a non-causal view, but they still managed to cook up a reason to time to appear to be in the right direction in spite of the symmetry of all the laws. Dicklyon 07:15, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Some links
Some things I've found that might be useful for info and refs:
- FEYNMAN'S THESIS — A NEW APPROACH TO QUANTUM THEORY edited by Laurie M Brown (Northwestern University, USA) see preface
- Classical Electrodynamics: With Fields or Without? An exposition of the necessity of fields in classical electrodynamics, James Augustin Hedberg
- search inside the book for Wheeler, Carver Mead's Collective Electrodynamics at Amazon.com
Dicklyon 07:28, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
