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Title: Hugh Everett letter to J.M. Levy-Leblond, 15-November-1977 with draft
Creator: Everett, Hugh
Date Created and/or Issued: 1977-11-15
Contributing Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Special Collections
Collection: Hugh Everett III Manuscripts
Rights Information: Copyrighted
This material is provided for private study, scholarship, or research. Transmission or reproduction of any material protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. The authors or their heirs retain their copyrights to the material. Unless otherwise indicated, the original files were donated to the American Institute of Physics (https://history.aip.org/ead/20130435.html). For permission to publish, contact Jeffrey A. Barrett, representative for the Everett estate, j.barrett@uci.edu.
Description: Scope/Content: In 1976, a conference called "Fifty Years of Quantum Mechanics" was held at the University of Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg. It was attended by more than a dozen physicists, including a young French scientist, Jean Marc Levy-Leblond. Wheeler's presentation was called, "Include the Observer in the Wave Function?'' Wheeler had a history of vacillating on Everett's theory, but now, 20 years after he had endorsed it in Reviews of Modern Physics, he rejected Everett's inclusion of the observer in the wave function, essentially upholding the Copenhagen interpretation. In 1977, Jean Marc Levy-Leblond wrote a letter to Everett, including a copy of a paper he had presented at the conference that compared DeWitt's and Everett's views. Everett responded by agreeing with Levy-Leblond's analysis of the differences between the two views. Everett especially liked the short spoof of foundational writing in physics (on "zipperdynamics'') that LeBlond had tacked onto the end of his paper. This document is Everett's reply to Levy-Leblond, including an earlier rough draft.
Scope/Content: This document is a reproduction of a document found at the Hugh Everett archive, American Institute of Physics.
Type: text
Identifier: ark:/81235/d89g5gs9w
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/1206
Language: English
eng
Subject: Everett, Hugh III
Correspondence
Levy-Leblond, J. M.
DeWitt, Bryce S.
Relation: Hugh Everett III Correspondence

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