Tag: Wheeler
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Continued from yesterday. The passage on Claude Chevalley quoted here yesterday in the post Dead Reckoning was, it turns out, also quoted by Peter Galison in his essay "Structure of Crystal,…
A review of the life of physicist Arthur Wightman, who died at 90 on January 13th, 2013. yields the following. Wightman at Wikipedia: "His graduate students include Arthur…
From a New York Times weblog last night— The Reconstruction of Rome By ROBERT BEASER The New York Times , Nov. 27, 2012, 9:00 PM Logic Pro software…
In memory of William S. Knowles, chiral chemist, who died last Wednesday (June 13, 2012)— Detail from the Harvard Divinity School 1910 bookplate in yesterday morning's post— "ANDOVER–HARVARD THEOLOGICAL…
Today's previous post, on the Feb. 2012 Scientific American article "Is Space Digital?", suggested a review of a notion that the theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler called pregeometry…
Cheap* Epiphanies for the Church of the Forbidden Planet Mid-day lotteries Dec. 19: * NY 198 PA 918 From 9/18: O the mind, mind has mountains, cliffs…
Poetry for Physicists: The Gates of Hell From the obituary of physicist John Archibald Wheeler at Princeton: In the fall of 1967, he was invited to give…
Classical Quantum From this morning's New York Times: "John A. Wheeler, a visionary physicist… died Sunday morning [April 13, 2008]…. … Dr. Wheeler set the agenda for generations…