"I think he kicks Wheelers ass (nothing personal to Wheeler)."
Maybe in Quantum Gravity. But Wheeler's work spans a huge array of fields that Hawking is unable to match (although likely due to his disability). Wheeler is also every bit as iconoclastic a thinker as Hawking, perhaps even more so. Wheeler may be the "Tyler Durden" of physicists. (Or maybe Tyler Durden is the Tyler Durden of physicsts!)
-TD
From: Jim Choate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 23:49:46 -0600 (CST)
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Tim May wrote:
> > Does the common man read his Hawking's book? Did Hawking even write it?
>
> Second, I don't know about Hawking's books, but Lee Smolin is one of
I especially like his "300 Years of Gravitation" and his '73 work on large
scale structure in time/space.
> stuff. This was mostly old hat 30 years ago (which is when I took Jim
> Hartle's class on general relativity). Hawking doesn't get much into
> the newer theories, at least not in any of the books of his I've
> skimmed.
Then you should skim more of them. Hawkings really jelled black hole
theory in the '73 work. He's pretty much the real modern father to some
folks.
I think he kicks Wheelers ass (nothing personal to Wheeler).
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