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Named after John Archibald Wheeler and Bryce DeWitt.
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Today it means: An equation that attempts to meld the ideas of quantum mechanics and general relativity. It describes the quantum version of the Hamiltonian constraint using metric variables. Full definition →
Named after John Archibald Wheeler and Bryce DeWitt.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.