John Archibald Wheeler
John Archibald 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",...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth9 July 1911
CountryUnited States of America
Now is the time for everyone who believes in the rule of reason to speak up against pathological science and its purveyors.
Of all heroes , Spinoza was Einstein 's greatest. No one expressed more strongly then he a belief in the harmony , the beauty , and most of all the ultimate comprehensibility of nature .
We will first understand how simple the universe is when we recognize how strange it is.
There are many modes of thinking about the world around us and our place in it. I like to consider all the angles from which we might gain perspective on our amazing universe and the nature of existence.
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.
In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.
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.
The job of a theoretical physicist is to make mistakes as fast as possible .
'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?
To hate is to study, to study is to understand, to understand is to appreciate, to appreciate is to love. So maybe I'll end up loving your theory.
The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.
I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times
Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.