R.I.P.: Wheeler

We were saddened to hear about the passing of the mighty physicist John Wheeler. This guy was the real deal and was perhaps the most influential physicist alive.

I first came to know Wheeler when I read a paper that he and Feynman (Feynman was Wheeler's student) wrote on the Retarded Potential. I was struck by the philosophical implications concerning the arrow of time. It was that brief paper that caused me to look more into Wheeler, and his massive contribution to knowledge.

I've never been star-struck by scientists (and movie stars are starting to lose their luster), but Wheeler was the only contemporary physicist that I really wanted to meet.