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",...
hot defining events
It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.
strange
We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is a participatory universe.
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.
behind grasp millennium surely
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?
museums wonder cathedrals
This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.
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.
teaching physics
One can only learn by teaching.
law sacred physics
The laws of physics that we regard as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything but.
real science phenomenon
No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.
running thinking law
Every heat engineer knows he can design his heat engine reliably and accurately on the foundation of the second law [of thermodynamics]. Run alongside one of the molecules, however, and ask it what it thinks of the second law. It will laugh at us. It never heard of the second law. It does what it wants. All the same, a collection of billions upon billions of such molecules obeys the second law with all the accuracy one could want
fire smoke
Surely where there's smoke there's fire? No, where there's so much smoke there's smoke.
strange observers universe
We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe.
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.
grace strange found
If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.