论文标题
约翰·惠勒（John Wheeler）如何失去对法律的信仰
How John Wheeler lost his faith in the law
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论文摘要
1972年，在庆祝保罗·迪拉克（Paul Dirac）70岁生日的一次研讨会上，约翰·惠勒（John Wheeler）宣称“框架落下了曾经称为物理法则的一切”。负责这种“物理定律中的破裂”是相对论的一般理论，更具体地说，它对大型恒星重力崩溃的预测是“黑洞”，惠勒本人几年前就流行了。在我们的论文中，我们调查了惠勒如何得出结论，即引力崩溃质疑物理学的合法性，以及随后，他试图开发一种新的世界观，以自己的方式重新思考量子力学的教训以及从其他学科中吸取灵感的方式，尤其是生物学。
In 1972, at a symposium celebrating the 70th birthday of Paul Dirac, John Wheeler proclaimed that "the framework falls down for everything that one has ever called a law of physics". Responsible for this "breakage [...] among the laws of physics" was the general theory of relativity, more specifically its prediction of massive stars gravitationally collapsing to "black holes", a term Wheeler himself had made popular some years earlier. In our paper, we investigate how Wheeler reached the conclusion that gravitational collapse calls into question the lawfulness of physics and how, subsequently, he tried to develop a new worldview, rethinking in his own way the lessons of quantum mechanics as well as drawing inspiration from other disciplines, not least biology.
