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P.C.W. Davies
(22 Apr 1946 - )
English-Australian physicist and writer whose research interests are in theoretical physics (quantum field theory), cosmology and astrobiology. His over twenty books include God and the New Physics (1983) and About Time (1995).
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Science Quotes by P.C.W. Davies (1)
Wheeler hopes that we can discover, within the context of physics, a principle that will enable the universe to come into existence 'of its own accord'. In his search for such a theory, he remarks: 'No guiding principle would seem more powerful than the requirement that it should provide the universe with a way to come into being.'. Wheeler likened this 'self-causing' universe to a self-excited circuit in electronics.
— P.C.W. Davies
In God and the New Physics (1984), 39. Wheeler quotation footnoted 'From the Black Hole', in H. Woolf (Ed.),Some Strangeness in the Proportion (1980).
See also: | Circuit (2) | Discovery (166) | Electronics (2) | Existence (44) | Principle (31) | Theory (179) | Universe (138) | John Wheeler (21)
