How Quantum is Life?

Voting Deadline: December 1, 2025 at 10AM US EST

Abstract

I walk into my Princeton advisor John Archibald Wheeler’s third-floor Jadwin Hall office one fine autumn afternoon to find him gazing out the window at October’s burning leaves. Wheeler senses my presence and slowly turns towards me, dressed in his crisp signature suit and tie, his fist lightly clenched. He solemnly states, “Today’s physics lacks the Noble,” his blue eyes smiling, “And it’s your generation’s duty to bring it back.” The following year (1990) Wheeler would hand me the booklet he had printed, called “It from Bit,” engraved with the quantum black hole on the cover. The book would inspire the “physics as information movement,” while Wheeler’s far greater call to adventure—to return honor to physics—would be lost in time, as it wasn’t quite as profitable as pursuits in the fiat-debt funded, dishonorable, ignoble realms of untestable, failed groupthink “physics.” The classical, exalted Spirit of physics, embodied by Wheeler and his teacher Bohr, his colleague Einstein, and his student Feynman, was sacrificed on the altar of fiat misinformation, as hundreds of millions of dollars disappeared down the black hole of the postmodern soul and progress in physics ground to a halt. Tragic as it might seem, the pseudo-physicists had to deny the heroic Spirit of Einstein, Bohr, Newton, Galileo, and Copernicus—of Wheeler and Feynam—and thus of Moving Dimensions Theory . And just as MDT first appeared in Dr. E’s artificial retina physics Ph.D. dissertation which is now helping the blind see, so too am I devoting myself to helping the world see the banished beauty and wisdom of Copernicus, Newton, Einstein, Bohr, Feynman, et al. The great J.A. Wheeler had called me to adventure with, “Today’s physics lacks the Noble, and it’s your generation’s duty to bring it back,” as wisdom—as philo-sophy—the love of wisdom—trumps mere information.
Dr. Elliot McGucken
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