ABSTRACT
Anybody who intends to ponder on the foundations of contemporary physics and who feels a need for a starting point should read in parallel two remarkable recent articles by Wheeler 1 and Bell 2 . No experience can show more clearly than this the fact that the foundation problem does not simply merge into what we normally call physics. For, in this latter field, we never get the impression that two mutually incompatible standpoints are both valid, whereas this is just the queer feeling that can easily emerge from the experience in question. Indeed, although the contents of these two articles are mutually exclusive, the articles themselves are so persuasive that we must think hard before we find an acceptable way not to take up unreservedly – at the same time – the views expressed by both of them.
