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John A. Wheeler, Physicist Who Coined the Term ‘Black Hole,’ Is Dead at 96
- jmzachary 19y ago"In the summers, Dr. Wheeler would retire with his extended family to a compound on High Island, Me., to indulge his taste for fireworks by shooting beer cans out of an old cannon." Awesome! People like to shoot that kind of stuff out of PVC pipes around my parts.
- aswanson 19y agoSad. He was working on an interesting problem relating to time and the two-slit light experiment, last I heard.