On July 9, 1971, John Archibald Wheeler attained the age of 60. It was evident to
many people that this event should be duly noted with an honorary volume, in
fact, one with an indefinable but necessary extra dimension. Somehow the
many facets of his career and governmental service, the charismatic and
distinctly personal style of his lectures, writings, and other activities, just had to be
conveyed. The first and the last essays represent particular attempts to do
just that. Original scientific articles stemming in one way or another from the
author’s association with John make up the rest of the volume.
An enormous number of people have benefited from their contact with John
Wheeler. Limitations of space and time—well-known in the physical world—
have not permitted the inclusion of appropriate contributions from all such
people, but rather from a representative few. Between the lines—the classic
literary solution to spatial limitations—lie the unstated yet implicit gratitude of
a host of others who join the contributors in congratulating John on his past
achievements and in wishing him all success in the future.
The editor is pleased to acknowledge his debt to a number of scientific colleagues
and also to Mrs. J. A. Wheeler and to Professor Wheeler’s secretaries, Mrs. M.
Pratt and Mrs. G. Witt, for advice, suggestions, and above all for assistance.
In addition, I would like to thank my wife Robbie for encouragement, and my
secretaries, Miss J. Bair, Mrs. B. Chippendale, Miss C. Hoesly, and Miss E.
Kornacki for creating their own style of “magic without magic.”

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John R Klauder; John Archibald Wheeler

Edited by John R. Klauder

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Includes bibliographical references.

Klauder J.R.(ed.).Magic Without Magic_John Archibald Wheeler(a collection of essays in honor of his sixtieth birthday) ......Page 4
COPYRIGHT ......Page 5
Preface ......Page 6
Contributors ......Page 7
Contents ......Page 10
Magic Without Magic: John Archibald Wheeler—An Introduction 1 ......Page 13
W.H.BASSICHIS,A.K.KERMAN,C.F.TSANG,D.R.TUERPE,L.WILETS A Study of Deformation Energy Surfaces Obtained from Single Particle Energies 15 ......Page 27
F.B.MALIK Superheavies—There or Not There: To Be Or Not To Be? 47 ......Page 59
K.W.FORD Approximation Methods in the Analysis of Muonic-Atom X-Rays 71......Page 83
S.D.BLOOM, M.H.JOHNSON,E.TELLER K- -Mesic Atoms and Capture in the Nuclear Surface 89 ......Page 101
M.H.JOHNSON Note on Hydromagnetic Expansions 113 ......Page 125
J.L.SYNGE The Electrodynamic Double Helix 117 ......Page 129
E.A.POWER Casimir’s Asymptotic Potential as a Perturbation on the Electromagnetic Vacuum 135 ......Page 147
P.JORDAN Possibilities of Generalizations of the Quantum Mechanical Formalism 141 ......Page 153
F.E.GOLDRICH,E.P.WIGNER On the Observability of the Collision Matrix 147 ......Page 159
T.REGGE S-Matrix and Feynman Integrals 161 ......Page 173
G.A.GOLDIN, D.H.SHARP Functional Differential Equations Determining Representations of Local Current Algebras 171 ......Page 183
H.LEUTWYLER Superlocal Sources 187 ......Page 199
C.W.F.EVERITT, W.M.FAIRBANK,W.O. HAMILTON From Quantized Magnetic Flux in Superconductors to Experiments on Gravitation and Time-Reversal Invariance 201 ......Page 213
J.WEBER,R.W.CLEMENS Response of Detectors to Gravitational Radiation from Collapsing Stars and Binary Systems 223 ......Page 235
K.S.THORNE Nonspherical Gravitational Collapse—A Short Review 231 ......Page 243
J.B.HARTLE Can a Schwarzschild Black Hole Exert Long-Range Neutrino Forces ? 259 ......Page 271
YA.B.ZEL’DOVICH Creation of Particles and Antiparticles in an Electric and Gravitational Field 277 ......Page 289
I.M.KHALATNIKOV,V.L.POKROVSKI A Contribution to the Theory of Homogeneous Einstein Spaces 289 ......Page 301
R.H.DICKE Mach’s Principle 297 ......Page 309
D.BRILL Thoughts on Topology Change 309 ......Page 321
P.G.BERGMANN Phase Integrals and Poincare Invariants 317 ......Page 329
A.KOMAR Observables, Correspondence and Quantized Gravitation 325 ......Page 337
R.PENROSE On the Nature of Quantum Geometry 333 ......Page 345
R.P.FEYNMAN Closed Loop and Tree Diagrams 355 ......Page 367
R.P.FEYNMAN Problems in Quantizing the Gravitational Field, and the Massless Yang-Mills Field 377 ......Page 389
B.S.DEWITT Covariant Quantum Geometrodynamics 409 ......Page 421
C.W.MISNER Minisuperspace 441 ......Page 453
E.F.TAYLOR The Anatomy of Collaboration 475 ......Page 487
Index 487 ......Page 498
cover ......Page 1

Edited By John R. Klauder. Includes Bibliographical References.

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