Monday - April 14, 2008

R.I.P. the great John Wheeler

Physicist John Wheeler, whose theory of time reversal symmetry plays a key role in YESTERDAY WAS A LIE, has died at the age of 96. Probably the last of the great 20th century physicists, Wheeler worked with such giants as Bohr, Einstein, and Feynman.

Interestingly, in 1979 Wheeler tried (unsuccessfully) to persaude the American Association for the Advancement of Science to de-certify parapsychology as an officially recognized science. By 2006, he had become quite metaphysical in his musings, advocating his "Participatory Anthropic Principle" which suggests, in effect, that conscious beings' minds manifest their reality.