Wheeler’s Utterly Simple Idea That Demands The Quantum

Monday, September 3, 2012 - 20:00 in Physics & Chemistry

The physicist John Archibald Wheeler wrote in 1984:“...the most revolutionary discovery in science is yet to come! And come, not by questioning the quantum, but by uncovering that utterly simple idea that demands the quantum.” Wheeler, 1984 [1]Here is where a “modal realist version of Einstein”, while contemplating the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox involving the infamous Alice and Bob, could have stumbled onto Wheeler’s “utterly simple idea that demands the quantum”: read more

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