[IP] : John A. Wheeler, physicist, 1991-2008

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Rich Kulawiec [rsk@gsp.org]
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 3:54 PM
To: David Farber
Subject: John A. Wheeler, physicist, 1991-2008

The New York Times reports:

        John A. Wheeler, Physicist Who Coined the Term `Black Hole,' Is Dead at 96
        http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/science/14wheeler.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Quoting:

        The black hole "teaches us that space can be crumpled like a piece
        of paper into an infinitesimal dot, that time can be extinguished
        like a blown-out flame, and that the laws of physics that we
        regard as `sacred,' as immutable, are anything but," he wrote
        in his 1999 autobiography [...]

---Rsk

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