Carolina QuotesSpace tells matter how to move Matter tells space how to curve
John Archibald Wheeler Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Gravitation (1973), Misner, Thorne and Wheeler, page 5, right-hand margin. See below (in Geons, Black Holes, ...) for a 2000 quote attributable individually to Wheeler, where he appears to attribute pre-2000 use of a similar phrase to himself.
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- 1973
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“Space tells matter how to move Matter tells space how to cur…” John Archibald Wheeler. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-2DC0BC7E57. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/2dc0bc7e57
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