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I'd be willing to have this arm cut off if that way I could understand how come the quantum. If I could understand how existence comes about, and the relation between the two questions. I think that's the most exciting thing. I think it's a thing which is outside the bailiwick of lots of people. And yet I think stands the most chance of giving a really dynamic impulse to the whole scientific enterprise.

John Wheeler, one of the world's most influential physicists, is best known for coining the term 'black holes', for his seminal contributions to the theories of quantum gravity and nuclear fission, as well as for his mind-stretching theories and writings on time, space and gravity.

Listeners: Ken Ford

Ken Ford took his Ph.D. at Princeton in 1953 and worked with Wheeler on a number of research projects, including research for the Hydrogen bomb. He was Professor of Physics at the University of California and Director of the American Institute of Physicists. He collaborated with John Wheeler in the writing of Wheeler's autobiography, 'Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics' (1998).

Duration: 47 seconds

Date story recorded: December 1996

Date story went live: 24 January 2008