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   • CommentAuthorUrs
   • CommentTimeJan 23rd 2019
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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexadded today's * [[Kip Thorne]], _John Archibald Wheeler: A Biographical Memoir_ ([arXiv:1901.06623](https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.06623)) <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/John+Wheeler/5">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/John+Wheeler/5">v5</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/John+Wheeler">current</a>

   added today’s

   • Kip Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler: A Biographical Memoir (arXiv:1901.06623)

   diff, v5, current

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   • CommentAuthorUrs
   • CommentTimeAug 20th 2023
   • (edited Aug 20th 2023)
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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexadded ([here](https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/John+Wheeler#Quotes)) quotes with sources of John Wheeler commanding the equations of physics to "fly" (and making the point that they don't). <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/John+Wheeler/8">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/John+Wheeler/8">v8</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/John+Wheeler">current</a>

   added (here) quotes with sources of John Wheeler commanding the equations of physics to “fly” (and making the point that they don’t).

   diff, v8, current