Carolina QuotesThe question is—what is the question?
John Archibald Wheeler Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Leonard Susskind, The Black Hole War (2008), chapter 13
- year
- 2008
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“The question is—what is the question?” John Archibald Wheeler. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-A381EA478E. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/a381ea478e
More from John Archibald Wheeler
There are many modes of thinking about the world around us and our place in it. I like to consider all the angles from which we might gain perspective on our amazing universe and the nature of existence.
Is the very mechanism for the universe to come into being meaningless or unworkable or both unless the universe is guaranteed to produce life, consciousness and observership somewhere and for some little time in its history-to-be? The quantum principle shows that there is a sense in which what the observer will do in the future defines what happens in the past—even in a past so remote that life did not then exist, and shows even more, that 'observership' is a prerequisite for any useful version of 'reality'.
We will first understand how simple the universe is when we realize how strange it is.