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Foreword | |
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Editor's preface | |
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Preface | |
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An Overview of the Contributions of John Archibald Wheeler | |
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John Archibald Wheeler and the clash of ideas | |
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An Historian's Tribute to John Archibald Wheeler and Scientific Speculation Through the Ages | |
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The heritage of Heraclitus: John Archibald Wheeler and the itch to speculate Jaroslav Pelikan | |
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Quantum Reality - Theory | |
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Why is nature described by quantum theory? | |
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Thought experiments in honor of | |
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It from qubit David Deutsch | |
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The wave function: it or bit? | |
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Quantum Darwinism and envariance | |
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Using qubits to learn about it | |
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Quantum gravity as an ordinary gauge theory | |
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The Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics | |
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Quantum Reality - Experiment | |
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Why the quantum? It from bit? A participatory universe? Three far-reaching, visionary questions from John Archibald Wheeler and how they inspired a quantum experimentalist Anton Zeilinger | |
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Speakable and unspeakable, past and future | |
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Conceptual tensions between quantum mechanics and general relativity: are there experimental consequences? | |
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Breeding non-local Schrodinger cats: a thought experiment to explore the quantum classical boundary | |
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Quantum erasing the nature of reality - or, perhaps, the reality of nature? | |
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Quantum feedback and the quantum-classical transition Hideo Mabuchi | |
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What quantum computers may tell us about quantum mechanics Christopher R. Monroe | |
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Big Questions in Cosmology | |
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Cosmic inflation and the arrow of time Andreas Albrecht | |
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Cosmology and immutability | |
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Quantum cosmology, inflation, and the anthropic principle Andrei Linde | |
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Parallel universes Max Tegmark | |
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Quantum theories of gravity: results and prospects Lee Smolin | |
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A genuinely evolving universe Joao Magueijo | |
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Planck-scale models of the universe Fotini G. Markopoulou | |
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Implications of additional spatial dimensions to questions in cosmology Lisa Randall | |
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Emergence, Life, and Related Topics | |
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Emergence: us from it | |
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True complexity and its associated ontology | |
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The three origins: cosmos, life and mind Marcelo Gleiser | |
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Autonomous agents | |
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To see a world in a grain of sand | |
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Science and ultimate reality program committees | |
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Young researchers competition in honor of John Archibald Wheeler for physics graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and young faculty | |