Physics needs no celebrities (Score 1)

Enough worshipping and idolazing! John Archibald Wheeler was certainly among the better American physicists of the 20th century. But let us not start another cult here. There is already a quite serious Einstein cult, and even minor Hawking-cult and Witten-cult. I wonder why there is no Faraday-cult or Prandtl-cult. Maybe these people had much more practical sense to be worhsipped by a bunch of irrational idolaters. Feynman spoke highly of Wheeler, he had a deep respect for the man. However if you look closely you will see that Wheeler introduced one of the most bizarre ideas in Physics - the concept of black hole (a space-time singularity). Nature does not usually allow true singularities to develop, there is always another process that kicks in to smooth things up. The black hole concept is an artificial entity which can be called upon whenever Astrophysics ends up in trouble trying to explain observational idea. Since then people invoke the concept of black hole in more and more places where it does not belong. Black holes grow to giant sizes, sitting at the center of each galaxy, they collide and multiply like rabbits in modern astrophysical theories. And yet, black holes are entities that could never be directly observed (yeah Hawking radiation you'll say) and thus this is an unfalsifiable concept, much like 12 devils sitting on a tip of a needle. So people can use it as often as they like since you cannot prove that black holes cannot exist based on the current knowledge. Physics has long lost its critical ability, the field suffers from excessive conformity and supression of dissent. It is going nowhere anytime soon. Rest in piece, Dr. Wheeler.