Talk:John Archibald Wheeler

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Quotation

I deleted the following paragraph:

He is also known for making interesting quotes; one of the best known is: "Time is what prevents everything from happening at once."

While Wheeler is definitely known for turning a phrase, he attributes this quotation to "a graffito that [he] once saw in the men's room of the Pecan Street Cafe in Austin, Texas". Wheeler, Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics, p. 351. Finell (Talk) 05:05, 1 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No-hair quotation

I believe I read in one of Kip Thorne's books that Wheeler coined the term: "Black holes have no hair." Is this correct? David618 02:51, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That is correct, he attributes the phrase to Wheeler on page 275 of Black Holes & Time Warps. User: 68.13.181.94 21 May 2006 16:46 UTC

Wheeler books

I can not locate a book titled Law Without Law as listed in Wheeler's booklist. Is the title incorrect, or should it be deleted from the list? --Blainster 22:08, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of James Hartle

I have removed the incorrect statement that James Hartle was a doctoral student of Wheeler. He was the student of Gell-Mann. Evidence of this can be found at the Math Genealogy Project [1]bunix 12:32, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Participatory Anthropic Principle

Wheeler is also came up with the Participatory Anthropic Principle. Why is this not mentioned in his article?

I cite here: http://home.btconnect.com/scimah/anthropism.htm

This theory is known as the Participatory Anthropic Principle and was first put forward by the physicist John A.Wheeler in 1983. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 60.42.152.218 (talk) 05:41, 6 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

I added a bit on PAP, with a direct quote by Wheeler. In the same radio interview Martin Redfern says: "David Deutsch once studied under the great quantum physicist John Wheeler. It was Wheeler who coined the next term - the participatory anthropic principle. That grew out of his understanding of the role of observation actually making us participators in the quantum universe." But I didn't think it was necessary to attribute that Wheeler coined the term. N.B. The link above is broken, but here's another: http://kwelos.tripod.com/anthropism.htm Aarghdvaark (talk) 09:12, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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