John A. Wheeler
John A. Wheeler
John Archibald Wheelerwas an American theoretical physicist. He was largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II. Wheeler also worked with Niels Bohr in explaining the basic principles behind nuclear fission. Together with Gregory Breit, Wheeler developed the concept of Breit–Wheeler process. He is best known for linking the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse already predicted early in the 20th century, for coining the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator",...
frisbee grass picture spiritual throwing treated
I had a picture of a seven-year-old throwing a Frisbee around on the grass but it's treated as a spiritual place.
strange
We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is a participatory universe.
funny time happenings
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
ideas world information
It from Bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom an immaterial source and explanation... that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and that this is a participatory universe.
description observation left
The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation.
plato space answers
No space, no time, no gravity, no electromagnetism, no particles. Nothing. We are back where Plato, Aristotle and Parmenides struggled with the great questions: How Come the Universe, How Come Us, How Come Anything? But happily also we have around the answer to these questions. That's us.
grace strange found
If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.
strange observers universe
We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe.
hot defining events
It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.
time connections tasks
Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the world of the discrete, of information, of bits.... Of all obstacles to a thoroughly penetrating account of existence, none looms up more dismayingly than 'time.' Explain time? Not without explaining existence. Explain existence? Not without explaining time. To uncover the deep and hidden connection between time and existence ... is a task for the future.
law sacred physics
The laws of physics that we regard as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything but.
curiosity trying strange
I like to say, when asked why I pursue science, that it is to satisfy my curiosity, that I am by nature a searcher trying to understand. If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.
museums wonder cathedrals
This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.
science fields exploration
In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.