John Archibald Wheeler has been driven by his curiosity about the 鈥渓aws on
which all else is built鈥攄eep happy mysteries, I like to call them鈥.
Inspired by the idea that 鈥淓verything Is Particles鈥, in 1952 he fell in love
with general relativity and gravitation (Everything Is Fields). Now he is 鈥渋n
the grip of a new vision, that Everything Is Information鈥 (see Editorial, p 3,
and 鈥淚 is the law鈥, p 24). In Geons, Black Holes & Quantum Foam, written
with Kenneth Ford, he remembers his extraordinary life. He coined the terms
鈥渂lack hole鈥 and 鈥渜uantum foam鈥, worked on fission, geons and gravity. His
collaborators are 20th-century physics: share a train ride with Fermi, a gossip
with Einstein, work with Bohr, G枚del and Penrose. An elegantly written,
enthralling account of the gravity man. Published by W. W. Norton,
$27.95, ISBN 0393046427.
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