DeWitt als Retter

David Clément, A. F. Varón, Mathilde Hugbart +6 more

J. A. RETTER, A. F. VARON, D. CLEMENT, M. HUGBART, P. BOUYER, L. SANCHEZ-PALENCIA, D. GANGARDT, G. V. SHLYAPNIKOV, AND A. ASPECT Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l’Institut d’Optique, Universite Paris-Sud XI, 91403 Orsay cedex, France. Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Modeles Statistiques, Universite Paris-Sud XI, 91405 Orsay cedex, France. Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute, University of Amsterdam, Valckenierstraat 65/67, 1018 XE Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Bryce Seligman DeWitt

Around 1988, Bryce DeWitt was asked to referee a paper by an author who argued that that DeWitt's version of Hugh Everett's theory was not true to Everett's original work. In his referee report, DeWitt offers to "set the record straight" about his interpretation of Everett's work. This is a copy of DeWitt's referee report. A version of the reviewed paper was subsequently published in 1990 in the American Journal of Physics. At the request of the DeWitt estate, the name of the author of the paper has been redacted. For further details see Byrne, P. (2010). The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III. Oxford University Press.

Gottfried Falk, Wolfgang Ruppel

Bryce Seligman DeWitt

As Hugh Everett's interpretation gained more notoriety in the wake of the DeWitt-Graham anthology, Wheeler began to distance himself from his former student. Here, DeWitt and Wheeler have reversed their earlier positions: DeWitt finds himself defending Everett's interpretation against Wheeler, who seems to have taken Bohr's side in a previous letter to DeWitt.

Gottfried Falk, Wolfgang Ruppel