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.
moving curves matter
Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.
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.
wall men glasses
'Participant' is the incontrovertible new concept given by quantum mechanics. It strikes down the 'observer' of classical theory, the man who stands safely behind the thick glass wall and watches what goes on without taking part. It can't be done, quantum mechanics says it...May the universe in some sense be 'brought into being' by the participation of those who participate?
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.
beautiful simple ideas
It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.
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.