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John Archibald Wheeler's Web: From Black Holes to It from Bit
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John Archibald Wheeler helped revive general relativity after WWII, played a pivotal role in the Manhattan Project, and popularized transformative ideas that bridge physics and philosophy. He coined terms like black hole, wormhole, and quantum foam, and pushed the provocative notion that information—and perhaps observers—shape reality through it from bit and the participatory universe. This episode traces his remarkable journey, outlining why his ideas still animate physics today, from nuclear physics to the farthest questions about existence.
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