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Feb 13, 2014 · John Archibald Wheeler (1911-2008) was a scientist-philosopher who introduced the concept of wormholes and coined the term “black hole”. He pioneered the theory of nuclear fission with Niels...
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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.
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Abstract. 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.
May 20, 2021 · May 20, 2021. 7. Share. In his chapter in a forthcoming book, Mind and Matter: Modern Dualism, Idealism and the Empirical Sciences (Discovery Institute Press), information theorist William Dembski looks at the ways physicist John Archibald Wheeler (1911–2008, pictured) changed our understanding of reality.
Apr 29, 2015 · This version of the anthropic principle (see “ Was the universe made for us? “) – known as the participatory universe – was first put forward by John Archibald Wheeler, a heavyweight of...
Mar 29, 2011 · Why the quantum? “It” from “bit”? A participatory universe? Three far-reaching challenges from John Archibald Wheeler and their relation to experiment; By Anton Zeilinger, University of Vienna Edited by John D. Barrow, University of Cambridge, Paul C. W. Davies, Macquarie University, Sydney, Charles L. Harper, Jr; Book: Science and ...
A form of the latter known as the participatory anthropic principle, articulated by John Archibald Wheeler, suggests on the basis of quantum mechanics that the universe, as a condition of its existence, must be observed, thus implying one or more observers.
