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",...
moving curves matter
Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.
ocean ignorance knowledge
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
real order students
We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.
funny time happenings
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
beautiful stupid simple
Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?
science fields exploration
In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.