Janna Levin

The star, like the Cheshire cat, fades from view. One leaves behind only its grin, the other only its gravitational attraction. And he was giving a lecture. It's actually above Tom's restaurant, you know, from Seinfeld near Columbia in New York. There was a place, or there still is a place there, where people were giving lectures about astrophysics. And it's 1967.

The star, like the Cheshire cat, fades from view. One leaves behind only its grin, the other only its gravitational attraction. And he was giving a lecture. It's actually above Tom's restaurant, you know, from Seinfeld near Columbia in New York. There was a place, or there still is a place there, where people were giving lectures about astrophysics. And it's 1967.

The star, like the Cheshire cat, fades from view. One leaves behind only its grin, the other only its gravitational attraction. And he was giving a lecture. It's actually above Tom's restaurant, you know, from Seinfeld near Columbia in New York. There was a place, or there still is a place there, where people were giving lectures about astrophysics. And it's 1967.

Wheeler is exhaustively saying this loaded term, the End state of catastrophic gravitational collapse. And rumor is that someone shouts from the back row, well, how about black hole? And apparently he then foists this term on the world. Wheeler had a way of doing that.

Wheeler is exhaustively saying this loaded term, the End state of catastrophic gravitational collapse. And rumor is that someone shouts from the back row, well, how about black hole? And apparently he then foists this term on the world. Wheeler had a way of doing that.

Wheeler is exhaustively saying this loaded term, the End state of catastrophic gravitational collapse. And rumor is that someone shouts from the back row, well, how about black hole? And apparently he then foists this term on the world. Wheeler had a way of doing that.

Oh, yeah, it's gorgeous.

Oh, yeah, it's gorgeous.

Oh, yeah, it's gorgeous.

Yeah. Now, I have to say, Wheeler, who actually coins the term black hole, gives Oppenheimer quite a terrible time about this. He thinks he's wrong. And they entered what has sometimes been described as kind of a bitter, I don't know if you would actually say feud, but there were bad feelings. And Wheeler actually spent decades saying Oppenheimer was wrong.

Yeah. Now, I have to say, Wheeler, who actually coins the term black hole, gives Oppenheimer quite a terrible time about this. He thinks he's wrong. And they entered what has sometimes been described as kind of a bitter, I don't know if you would actually say feud, but there were bad feelings. And Wheeler actually spent decades saying Oppenheimer was wrong.

Yeah. Now, I have to say, Wheeler, who actually coins the term black hole, gives Oppenheimer quite a terrible time about this. He thinks he's wrong. And they entered what has sometimes been described as kind of a bitter, I don't know if you would actually say feud, but there were bad feelings. And Wheeler actually spent decades saying Oppenheimer was wrong.

And eventually, with his computer work, that early work that Wheeler was doing with computers when he was also trying to understand nuclear weapons, and in peacetime, found themselves returning again to these astrophysical questions, decided that actually Oppenheimer had been right.

And eventually, with his computer work, that early work that Wheeler was doing with computers when he was also trying to understand nuclear weapons, and in peacetime, found themselves returning again to these astrophysical questions, decided that actually Oppenheimer had been right.

And eventually, with his computer work, that early work that Wheeler was doing with computers when he was also trying to understand nuclear weapons, and in peacetime, found themselves returning again to these astrophysical questions, decided that actually Oppenheimer had been right.

He thought it was too simplistic, too idealized a setup that they had used, and that if you looked at something that was more realistic and more complicated, that it just simply, it just would go away. And in fact, he draws the opposite conclusion. And

He thought it was too simplistic, too idealized a setup that they had used, and that if you looked at something that was more realistic and more complicated, that it just simply, it just would go away. And in fact, he draws the opposite conclusion. And

He thought it was too simplistic, too idealized a setup that they had used, and that if you looked at something that was more realistic and more complicated, that it just simply, it just would go away. And in fact, he draws the opposite conclusion. And

There's a story that Oppenheimer was sitting outside of the auditorium when Wheeler was coming forth with his declaration that, in fact, black holes were the likely end state of gravitational collapse for very, very heavy stars. And when asked about it, Oppenheimer sort of said, well, I've moved on to other things.

There's a story that Oppenheimer was sitting outside of the auditorium when Wheeler was coming forth with his declaration that, in fact, black holes were the likely end state of gravitational collapse for very, very heavy stars. And when asked about it, Oppenheimer sort of said, well, I've moved on to other things.