author : John Archibald Wheeler

Books

• (Spacetime Physics. 1963. With Edwin F. Taylor)
• Gravitation. 1970. With Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne
• (Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam. 1998. With Kenneth Ford)

Papers/Articles

• Assessment of Everett's "Relative State" formulation of Quantum Machanics. 1957. In The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
• Is physics legislated by cosmogony?. 1977. In The Encyclopaedia of Ignorance
• Information, Physics, Quantum: The Search for Links. 1989.
  • In Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information
  • In Feynman and Computation

Books : reviews

Edwin F. Taylor, John Archibald Wheeler. Spacetime Physics. 1963

 

Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler. Gravitation. 1970

 

Coordinate free General Relativity.

Space tells matter how to move. Matter tells space how to curve.

Time is defined so that motion looks simple.

[I found the metaphor of 'bongs of a bell', used to explain 1-forms, less than illuminating.]

John Archibald Wheeler, Kenneth Ford. Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam: a life in physics. W W Norton. 1998