We provide an account of John Wheeler’s transition from his work on elementary particle physics (in which particles provided the ultimate ontology in his worldview), to his work on gravitation and general relativity (in which spacetime geometry was the ultimate object out of which all other things were composed). We also describe his early work on quantum gravity largely as a long-standing attempt to derive the elementary particles from spacetime structure.

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吉恩·惠勒（Geon Wheeler）：从核物理学到时空物理学家

我们介绍了约翰·惠勒从他的基本粒子物理学的工作（其中粒子提供了他的世界观的最终本体论）到他的引力和广义相对论的工作的过渡（其中时空几何是最终的对象，而所有其他事物组成）。我们还描述了他关于量子引力的早期工作，这在很大程度上是对从时空结构中获得基本粒子的长期尝试。