#John Archibald Wheeler

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Gravitation by Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler

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John Wheeler – Scientist of the Day

John Archibald Wheeler, an American physicist, was born July 9, 1911.

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Turiyatitta and the One-Electron Universe

A Journey into Nondual OnenessAs proposed by physicist John Archibald Wheeler, the concept of the one-electron universe suggests that every electron in the universe might be the same particle, traversing back and forth through time. This radical idea blurs the boundaries between individuality and unity, inviting profound contemplation on the nature of existence and consciousness.Electrons, as…

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On This Day: Oppenheimer publishes a paper that basically lays out the existence of black holes. John Archibald Wheeler scoffs at it, then turns around to coin the term "black hole" himself

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Information, physics, quantum: the search for links, John Archibald Wheeler

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John Archibald Wheeler was an American theoretical physicist. He was largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after...

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John Wheeler was fond of illustrating his vision with a variant of the twenty questions game. In this game, a group of colleagues are seated in a living room after dinner. One is sent out. In his absence, the rest decide to play the game with a twist: They agree not to settle on a definite word but to act as if they had agreed upon a word. When the questioner returns and poses his “yes/no” questions, each respondent answers as he pleases, with the one condition that his response should be compatible with all previous ones. So at each stage of the game, everyone in the room has in mind a word that is consistent with all the answers that have been given before. Naturally, successive questions rapidly narrow down the options until both the questioner and the respondents are taken by the hand, as it were, and guided toward a single word. What that final word is, however, depends on the questions the questioner asks and even on the order of the questions. In this variant of the game, Wheeler said, “No word is a word, until that word is promoted to reality by the choice of questions asked and answers given.”

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This is a participatory universe… Observer-participancy gives rise to information

John Archibald Wheeler

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Mike is named after famous theoretical physicist

John Archibald Wheeler

I reference this in my art here if you’re interested in checking it out.

We really should talk about this more…

John Wheeler is known for his work on promoting Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Mike has art on his wall titled “Relativity” by M.C. Escher based on the theory.

John Wheeler is also known for popularizing the term “black hole”. Stephen Hawking even referred to him as “the hero of the black hole story”.

He has also done a lot of work on quantum mechanics. Specifically, he has theorized that time may work much differently on a quantum scale. Wheeler’s Delayed-Choice Experiment, and the One-Electron Universe are examples of theories in which he postulates if subatomic particles can essentially “time travel”.

While I know Mike is “not a dog”, he does share something major in common with the dog in Back to the Future (who happens to be referenced in ST). Lol.

Anyway… much to think about.

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Gravitation by Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler

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Unity and interconnectedness This symbol depicts the universe as a "self-excited" circuit. It was originally created by the late theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler in his 1983 paper Law Without Law. The eye represents the self and the line directly opposite represents that which it is perceiving within the "external" environment. The two sections are connected into each other via arrows to demonstrate that it is a singular and unified system.

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Imagine💭 compressing the entire universe into a blueberry. 🫐 That's the Planck Epoch - tiny but mighty!💪🏻 A speck of unimaginable density and energy, where everything we know was squeezed into a point smaller than a proton. 🤏🏻 Swipe through this post ➡️ where we've peeled another layer of 'Big Bang Theory' !

📸Image credits:

Max Planck - Max Planck Gesselschaft

Space-Time foam illustration - NASA

John Archibald Wheeler - Getty Images

Gluon, W and Z boson - MissMJ/Wikimedia Commons

Loop quantum theory - Keg Umian/medium

String theory - Victor de Schwanberg/Alamy

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Okay so. A bit of a rabbit hole here but I was looking deeper into John Archibald Wheeler and I was like huh. What's a stellarator?

So I decided to look at the page for it...

Which led me to a Gottlieb. And I was like "Huh...where have I heard the name Gottlieb before?"

Well, as it turns out, while Melvin Gottlieb was working on the Model C stellarator in 1954, Sidney Gottlieb was running Operation Midnight Climax under the narcotics division of the CIA as a part of MKUltra.

And I was like "Woah, okay, freaky"...but it get's weirder. There's a section on the death of Frank Olson, which was a murder covered up as a suicide.

Frank married a classmate, Alice...

...and his family sued the CIA over his death in connection with MKUltra.

This operation, Midnight Climax, inspired a stage play by Neal Bell in 1981.

Neal Bell also wrote Two Small Bodies, a stage play based on the Alice Crimmins case...

...in which a mother supposedly killed her two children: Eddie and Alice.

But the sheer lack of physical evidence in the case made it hard to determine if she actually did it.

Her case was based more on prejudice against her unconventional behavior as a woman in the 60s.

So just...some interesting stuff to chew on.

[dontcallittimetravel]

Happy birthday to John Archibald Wheeler, who enjoyed quantum foam parties perhaps a little too much