Science & Ultimate Reality

Celebrating the Vision of John Archibald Wheeler
and Taking It Forward into a New Century of Discovery

Wheeler Listserv hosted by Paul Davies
Join conference speakers and others
in a pre-publication discussion of
the major conference themes.
Winners of the Young Researchers Competition
in Physics Announced
Opening Lecture: Anton Zeilinger
Renowned quantum experimentalist Anton Zeilinger on
“Why the Quantum? It from Bit? A Participatory Universe?:
Three Far-reaching, Visionary Questions from John Archibald Wheeler
and How They Inspired a Quantum Experimentalist”
Major Book-Expected Publication Date 2003





		Celebrating the Vision of John Archibald Wheeler and Taking It Forward into a New Century of Discovery Wheeler Listserv hosted by Paul Davies Join conference speakers and others in a pre-publication discussion of the major conference themes. Winners of the Young Researchers Competition in Physics Announced Opening Lecture: Anton Zeilinger Renowned quantum experimentalist Anton Zeilinger on “Why the Quantum? It from Bit? A Participatory Universe?: Three Far-reaching, Visionary Questions from John Archibald Wheeler and How They Inspired a Quantum Experimentalist” Major Book-Expected Publication Date 2003 Program Oversight Committee Freeman Dyson, Chair: Institute for Advanced Study Max Tegmark, Deputy Chair: University of Pennsylvania John Barrow: University of Cambridge George Ellis: University of Cape Town Robert Laughlin: Stanford University; Nobel Laureate in Physics Charles Misner: University of Maryland William Phillips: National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA); Nobel Laureate in Physics Charles Townes: University of California, Berkeley; Nobel Laureate in Physics Program Development Committee Members Andreas Albrecht: University of California, Davis John Barrow: University of Cambridge Raymond Chiao: University of California, Berkeley Philip Clayton: Harvard University Paul Davies: Author/Lecturer (formerly, University of Adelaide) Freeman Dyson: Institute for Advanced Study Artur Ekert: University of Oxford George Ellis: University of Cape Town Serge Haroche: College of France Stuart Kauffman: Santa Fe Institute Robert Laughlin: Stanford University William Phillips: National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA) Lee Smolin: Pennsylvania State University Max Tegmark: University of Pennsylvania Dieter Zeh: University of Heidelberg Anton Zeilinger: University of Vienna Wojceich Zurek: Los Alamos National Laboratory Cosponsors John Templeton Foundation Peter Gruber Foundation Cosmology Prize Science & Ultimate Reality Consortium of Special Contributors Science and Ultimate Reality Home Page