October 2022

poster for Alexander Blum's virtual seminar, John Wheeler and Quantum Gravity, 7 december 2022, 4pm CET

Alexander Blum
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

John Wheeler and Quantum Gravity

John Wheeler was the inventor of quantum gravity – not as a formal program for uniting general relativity and quantum mechanics, but as the potential key to a theory of everything. In this talk, I will show how he first imbued quantum gravity with this new role in the 1950s and then how (and why) …

Alexander Blum
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

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Pietro Dona

Consortium Members / By Qiss

Center for Theoretical Physics
Aix-Marseille University

Lucas Hackl

Consortium Members / By Qiss

University of Melbourne, Australia

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