English Explanatory Dictionary

Wheeler-Feynman absorber theory

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An interpretation of electrodynamics derived from the assumption that the solutions of the electromagnetic field equations must be invariant under time-reversal transformation, as are the field equations themselves.

Word forms

Wheeler-Feynman absorber theory

Etymology

Named after its originators, the physicists Richard Feynman and John Archibald Wheeler.

Synonyms

Wheeler-Feynman time-symmetric theory
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