Meanings
- 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.
Synonyms: Wheeler-Feynman time-symmetric theory
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounAn 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.
Origin
Named after its originators, the physicists Richard Feynman and John Archibald Wheeler.
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