Etymology

Wheeler-Feynman absorber theory

Today it means: 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. Full definition →

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

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