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Books

(The Left Hand of Creation. 1983. With Joseph Silk)
(The Anthropic Cosmological Principle. 1986. With Frank J. Tipler)
The World Within the World. 1988
Theories of Everything: the quest for ultimate explanation. 1990
Pi in the Sky. 1992
(The Origin of the Universe. 1994)
(The Artful Universe. 1995)
(Impossibility. 1998)
(Between Inner Space and Outer Space. 1999)
(The Book of Nothing. 2000)
(Science and Ultimate Reality. 2004. With Paul C. W. Davies, Charles L. Harper Jr)

Papers/Articles

Limits of science. 1996. In Boundaries and Barriers
The Analogy of Nature. 1999. In Mission to Abisko
The Indo-Arab Counting System. 2000. In The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years
Cosmology and immutability. 2004. In Science and Ultimate Reality

Books : reviews

Contents

• Paul C. W. Davies.
John Archibald Wheeler and the clash of ideas

• Jaroslav Pelikan.
The heritage of Heraclitus: John Archibald Wheeler and the itch to speculate

• Lucien Hardy.
Why is nature described by quantum theory?

• Freeman J. Dyson.
Thought-experiments in honor of John Archibald Wheeler

• David Deutsch.
It from qubit

• H. Dieter Zeh.
The wave function: it or bit?

• Wojciech H. Zurek.
Quantum Darwinism and envariance

• Juan Pablo Paz.
Using qubits to learn about "it"

• Juan M. Maldacena.
Quantum gravity as an ordinary guage theory

• Bryce S. DeWitt.
The Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics

• Anton Zeilinger.
Why the quantum? "It" from "bit"? a Participatory universe? Three far-reaching challenges from John Archibald Wheeler and their relation to experiment

• Aephraim M. Steinberg.
Speakable and unspakable, past and future

• Raymond Y. Chiao.
Conceptual tensions between quantum mechanics and general relativity: are there experimental consequences?

• Serge Haroche.
Breeding nonlocal Schrodinger cats: a thought-experiment to explore the quantum-classical boundary

• Paul G. Kwiat, Berthold-Georg Englert.
Quanum erasing the nature of reality: or, perhaps, the reality of nature?

• Hideo Mabuchi.
Quantum feedback and the quantum-classical transition

• Christopher R. Monroe.
What quantum computers may tell us about quantum mechanics

• Andreas Albrecht.
Cosmic inflation and the arrow of time

• John D. Barrow.
Cosmology and immutability

• Andrei Linde.
Inflation, quatum cosmology, and the anthropic principle

• Max Tegmark.
Parallel universes

• Lee Smolin.
Quantum theories of gravity: results and prospects

• Joao Magueijo.
A genuinely evolving universe

• Fotini Markopoulou.
Planck-scale models of the universe

• Lisa Randall.
Implications of additional spatial dimensions for questions in cosmology

• Philip D. Clayton.
Emergence: us from it

• George F. R. Ellis.
True complexity and its associated ontology

• Marcelo Gleiser.
The three origins: cosmos, life, and mind

• Stuart A. Kauffman.
Autonomous agents

• Shou-Cheng Zhang.
To see a world in a grain of sand