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The rich, biographical stories of Feynman and Wheeler in Halpern’s “The Quantum Labyrinth”

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John G. Cramer. Department of Physics. University  of Washington.:  http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~mijp1/transaction/TI_30.html#3.2 Wheeler-Feynman absorber theory (a.k .a. Wheeler-Feynman time-symmetric theory): In layperson terms, imagine you push on a wall. However, the wall can sense that you are going to push on it, and so it pushes you before you even start to push it, thereby canceling out any force you exert. Mathematically speaking, it means that the results of the electromagnetic field equations must not change even in time-reversal conversions. Paul Halpern, a professor of physics at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia and the author of  The Quantum Labyrinth , describes it as tying one end of a clothesline to a rocking chair and the other end to a wall. Once the chair begins to rock, a signal will go from the chair to the wall and back to the chair to hinder its movement. Now, consider that the wall sends an “advanced” signal through the clotheslines to t