Ask HN: This is bullshit

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10 years ago

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?]

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