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Re: Peering Through the Gates of Time



At 09:48 AM 3/12/02, Bob Sciamanda wrote:
For your reading pleasure. On the latter days of John A Wheeler:

<http://college4.nytimes.com/guests/articles/2002/03/12/907536.xml>

...concluding with such a quotable quote:

But as Dr. [Kip] Thorne pointed out, Dr. [J.A] Wheeler's track record with
crazy ideas is surprisingly good. One such idea had led to a Nobel Prize
for Dr. Wheeler's graduate student Dr. Richard Feynman, the noted Caltech
physicist. Dr. Thorne recalled Dr. Feynman's telling him once, "Some people
think Wheeler's gotten crazy in his later years, but he's always been crazy."






Brian Whatcott
Altus OK Eureka!