Information, physics, quantum: The search for links

Feynman and Computation

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 309-336

  Wheeler, John Archibald ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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QUANTUM THEORY; WAVE EQUATIONS;

ELEMENTARY ACT; MICROSCOPIC LEVELS; PHYSICAL LAWS; PHYSICAL QUANTITIES; PROBABILITY FUNCTIONS; QUANTUM PHENOMENA; QUANTUM PHYSICS; SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM;

INFORMATION THEORY;

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DOI: 10.1201/9780429500459     Document Type: Chapter

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