re: #65 Charles

Tipler is a sad case… of a sharp mind that has been led more by the all too human desire to make sense of one’s impending existential crisis (death), rather than being led by training and discipline.

Associating himself with Wheeler was a path to some notoriety. (Wheeler was a well known physicist.) When I was considering going to graduate school in physics, Maryland was on my short list (it was a leading school in the field)… I wonder if I had done so if I would have crossed paths with Tipler.