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{{cquote|In his youth, Kant’s doctrines made a great impression on him; later he was stirred both by Fichte’s metaphysical idealism and by Husserlian phenomenology. Although Weyl came to question the certainties claimed by idealism, he cleaved always to the primacy of intuition he had first learned from Kant, and to its expression by Fichte as the “inner light” of individual consciousness.<ref>https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/weyl/#LifAch</ref>}} | {{cquote|In his youth, Kant’s doctrines made a great impression on him; later he was stirred both by Fichte’s metaphysical idealism and by Husserlian phenomenology. Although Weyl came to question the certainties claimed by idealism, he cleaved always to the primacy of intuition he had first learned from Kant, and to its expression by Fichte as the “inner light” of individual consciousness.<ref>https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/weyl/#LifAch</ref>}} | ||
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| + | Weyl invented the concept of a "[[wormhole]]" in space-time, which is a thread in space similar to an air channel existing in Swiss cheese. Inside this one-dimensional tube space does not exist, and its boundaries are inaccessible as [[infinite]] distance. Under this view, [[electricity]] is topological and consists of an electric force line trapped in a topology of space. Electricity consists of electric lines of force trapped in the topology of space. | ||
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| + | [[John Wheeler]] coined the term "wormhole" itself later in 1957. | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
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Latest revision as of 00:43, July 14, 2025
Hermann Weyl (1885-1955) was a German mathematician and physicist who also worked on the philosophy of mathematics, as he was inspired by his readings of Immanuel Kant.
As explained by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
| “ | In his youth, Kant’s doctrines made a great impression on him; later he was stirred both by Fichte’s metaphysical idealism and by Husserlian phenomenology. Although Weyl came to question the certainties claimed by idealism, he cleaved always to the primacy of intuition he had first learned from Kant, and to its expression by Fichte as the “inner light” of individual consciousness.[1] | ” |
Weyl invented the concept of a "wormhole" in space-time, which is a thread in space similar to an air channel existing in Swiss cheese. Inside this one-dimensional tube space does not exist, and its boundaries are inaccessible as infinite distance. Under this view, electricity is topological and consists of an electric force line trapped in a topology of space. Electricity consists of electric lines of force trapped in the topology of space.
John Wheeler coined the term "wormhole" itself later in 1957.