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Arthur Wightman. Cheuk-Yin Wong. John Archibald Wheeler (July 9, 1911 – April 13, 2008) was 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 to explain the basic principles of nuclear fission.
Feb 13, 2014 · John Wheeler’s Participatory Universe. John Archibald Wheeler (1911-2008) was a scientist-philosopher who introduced the concept of wormholes and coined the term “black hole”. He pioneered ...
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This paper investigates the role of human subjectivity and its delimiters in articulating the universe in physics and cosmology. As a case study, we reflect upon the complex of ideas of the so called Participatory Universe by later J. A. Wheeler. The objective of the paper is to explicate the role of the human agency as a centre of disclosure ...
May 20, 2021 · To Wheeler we are not simply bystanders on a cosmic stage; we are shapers and creators living in a participatory universe. Wheeler’s hunch is that the universe is built like an enormous feedback loop, a loop in which we contribute to the ongoing creation of not just the present and the future but the past as well.
The fertile imagination of John Archibald Wheeler, who died on 13 April aged 96, ... discovered a rotating-universe model), but John had got to do what he loved best: inspire
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Part II An historian's tribute to John Archibald Wheeler and scientific speculation through the ages; Part III Quantum reality: theory; Part IV Quantum reality: experiment; 11 Why the quantum? “It” from “bit”? A participatory universe? Three far-reaching challenges from John Archibald Wheeler and their relation to experiment
Mar 1, 2013 · This paper investigates the role of human subjectivity and its delimiters in articulating the universe in physics and cosmology. As a case study, we reflect upon the complex of ideas of the so called Participatory Universe by later J. A. Wheeler. The objective of the paper is to explicate the role of the human agency as a centre of disclosure and manifestation of the universe as well the as ...
