Thanks to Susan Kocen for finding the following quote, from an interview with Professor John Wheeler from 2003 on The Science Show, Radio National Australia….

“Q: Many great scientists throughout their life have a vision. Do you have a vision?

John Wheeler: Well, to me it’s the picture that the whole of this existence of ours will some day have its single, central principle spring to life, that will be so natural we’ll say to ourselves: How could it have been otherwise and how could we have been so stupid all these years not to have seen it?”

Wheeler was the teacher of well known physicists such as Richard Feynman, Hugh Everett and our friend, Edwin Taylor. Wheeler died recently.

We ask you as Wheeler did; what if any is that “central principle” of existence?

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