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: John A. Wheeler, physicist, 1991-2008
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:55:17 -0700
________________________________________ 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 ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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