Status Updates From Gravitation

“Nobody can compel a physicist to move in close to define energy and angular momentum. He has no need to move in close; and he may have compelling motives not to: the internal structure of the sources may be inaccessible, incomprehensible, uninteresting, dangerous, expensively distant, or frightening.” P 463
“Right? No, the question is wrong. The motivation is wrong. The result is wrong. The idea is wrong.” P467

Sakharov's analysis suggests that gravitation is to particle physics as elasticity is to chemical physics: merely a statistical measure of residual energies.

slow and steady (ok, maybe not so steady?) progress

This is a love poem to geometry, goddamn

Thank you Wheeler for writing EVERY BLOODY OBSERVABLE IN CENTIMETERS, but hey, at least I now know that the Sun has a *mass* of 150000000 centimeteres. Also eheh funny number