Remarks on the Origin of Path Integration: Einstein and Feynman

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2008-01-10

arxiv.org/abs/0801.1654v1

Physics

History and Philosophy of Physics

To appear in Proceedings of 'Path Integrals - New Trends and Perspectives,' Dresden, 23-28 September 2007

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I offer some historical comments about the origins of Feynman's path integral approach, as an alternative approach to standard quantum mechanics. Looking at the interaction between Einstein and Feynman, which was mediated by Feynman's thesis supervisor John Wheeler, it is argued that, contrary to what one might expect, the significance of the interaction between Einstein and Feynman pertained to a critique of classical field theory, rather than to a direct critique of quantum mechanics itself. Nevertheless, the critical perspective on classical field theory became a motivation and point of departure for Feynman's space-time approach to non-relativistic quantum mechanics.

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