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Ask HN: This is bullshit
So I've been watching a few excellent lectures by Alain Aspect (videos on youtube) on QM and he's such a great physicist/teacher. He highlights key experiments and papers and its a great way imo to cut through clutter and just zero in on critical view points to read up on. (He is clearly a huge Einstein fan, his results not-withstanding).
Anway, he mentioned Wheeler's paper on Delayed Choice Gedankenexperiment and so off I went searching for a pdf version.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780124732506
Possibly my ddgfu is subpar but I find it outrageous that such a seminal paper is not in public domain!
[p.s. oh yes, Ask HN. Implied question being, what is opionion of this forum? Is it reasonable for absolutely key (and unclassified) scientific output to be behind a pay wall, in this case after ~3+ decades?]
- dredmorbius 11y agoThere's a reason for the phenomenal popularity and success of the Library of Alexandra, a/k/a Sci-Hub.
- greenyoda 11y agoThe book that this paper appears in was published in 1978, so under U.S. copyright law, it wouldn't be in the public domain yet. DDG did, however, find a copy of the paper here (it's a Flash-based reader; you apparently need an account on the site to download the PDF): http://www.doc88.com/p-7384580283926.html http://www.doc88.com/p-7384580283926.html