"Computing a Theory of Everything" (2010)
Source: A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
"Computing a Theory of Everything" (2010)
[John Archibald Wheeler, Kenneth William Ford, Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics, W. W. Norton & Company, 2000, 0393319911, 153]
“We are all afforded our physical existence so we can learn about ourselves.”
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (2000)
As quoted in The Nazi Hunters by Neal Bascomb (2013). ISBN 978-0-545-56239-3.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: To me, when we talk about the world, we are talking about our ideas of the world. Our ideas of organisation, our different religions, our different economic systems, our ideas about it are the world. We are heading for a radical revision where you could say we are heading towards the end of the world, but more in the R. E. M. sense than the Revelation sense. That is what apocalypse means – revelation. I could square that with the end of the world, a revelation, a new way of looking at things, something that completely radicalises our notions of the where we were, when we were, what we were, something like that would constitute an end to the world in the kind of abstract – yet very real sense – that I am talking about. A change in the language, a change in the thinking, a change in the music. It wouldn’t take much – one big scientific idea, or artistic idea, one good book, one good painting – who knows – we are at a critical point where the ideas are coming thicker and faster and stranger and stranger than they ever were before. They are realised at a greater speed, everything has become very fluid.
