https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/15/john-wheeler-is-dead/ Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:53:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/15/john-wheeler-is-dead/#comment-6692 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:53:19 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/15/john-wheeler-is-dead/#comment-6692 Gell-Mann is an old titan, for sure, and he is not known to hvae died. But I don’t think he worked with Einstein.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/15/john-wheeler-is-dead/#comment-6691 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:55:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/15/john-wheeler-is-dead/#comment-6691 I remember learning special relativity from a textbook by Wheeler. It was different to the normal undergraduate approach to relativity and it was the first example I encountered of “c=1” all the way through. (I later learned the mathematical parody of pi = 1.) The book was a great read, especially considering it was a physics textbook and I actually had the feeling I could intuitively understand special relativity. Remarkable book.I was amazed when I found out that he was the same Wheeler who was Feynman’s supervisor and that he worked with Einstein and Bohr. What a hero.But as for the last titan, isn’t Gell-Mann still alive?

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