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There is nothing in the world except empty curved space. Matter, charge, electromagnetism, and other fields are only manifestations of the curvature of space.
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It from bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom — at a very deep bottom, in most instances — an immaterial source and explanation; that which we call reality arises in the last analysis from the posing of yes-no questions and the resistering of equipment-evoked responses; in short, that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and that this is a participatory universe.
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We will first recognize how simple the universe is when we recognize how strange it is.
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This is our universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.
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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.
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There is an age-old longing to understand the inner mystery of this strange and beautiful world of ours and our own little place in the scheme of things. Whoever knows a little and can give a little to the search wants to know more and give more.
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Only by the analysis and interpretation of observations as they are made, and the examination of the larger implications of the results, is one in a satisfactory position to pose new experimental and theoretical questions of the greatest significance.
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Time ends. That is the lesson of the "big bang." It is also the lesson of the black hole.
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Should we be prepared to see some day a new structure for the foundations of physics that does away with time? In Paul Davies
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As we make our way into the world of tomorrow, with its endless frontiers and its opportunities for a deeper and richer civilization than ever before, we will meet and overcome many a new risk. But we know that the greatest risk of all is what it always has been — to be born — for then we are sure to die.
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So the quantum, fiery creative force of modern physics, has burst forth in eruption after eruption and for all we know the next may be the greatest of all.
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John Archibald Wheeler
Born:
July 9, 1911
Died:
April 13, 2008
(aged 96)
Bio:
John Archibald Wheeler was an American theoretical physicist. He was largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II.
Known for:
A Journey into Gravity and Spacetime (1990)
Exploring Black Holes (2000)
Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam (1998)
Gravitation and Inertia (1995)
At Home in the Universe (1994)
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