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Physicist John A. Wheeler is Dead at 96
reverseengineer writes "Eminent physicist John Archibald Wheeler has died from pneumonia at the age of 96. The coiner of the terms 'black hole' and 'wormhole,' Wheeler popularized the study of general relativity, and advised a distinguished list of graduate students including Kip Thorne and Richard Feynman. Other work included a collaboration with Niels Bohr to develop the 'liquid drop' model of nuclear fission. Max Tegmark, a cosmologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said of Dr. Wheeler, 'For me, he was the last Titan, the only physics superhero still standing.'"
Key word standing... Hawking hasn't been standing for years.
We will miss the man that proved the Universe falls inwards onto itself at points or at least just sucks really hard.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what your country did to you
That's OK as long as he stays clear from Redmont.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
He only has an Erds number of 3. Amateur.
Well, he passed the event horizon between life and death.
That it's an event horizon is proved by the facts that no one ever came back, we don't get any information from the other side, and sooner or later we all will fall through it.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Was your college physics professor perhaps a rather bitter man whose own book had failed to sell terribly well?
"When I first heard Daydream Nation it quite frankly scared the living shit out of me." -- Matthew Stearns
He's not dead, his wave function has merely collapsed.