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A couple interesting recommendations...
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From: "Ant Allan" <antallan@mac.com>
To: <david@lucifer.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 6:00 AM
Subject: Virion Reading List
David -
I found you site through Richard Dawkins' foreword to Susan Blackmore's
The Meme Machine, and I was going to recommend this book… then I found
the new site!
So let me recommend a book which is perhaps a little leftfield, but
will I think be of much interest to many Virions, not least because it
demonstrates the virtues of Reason and Vision! The book is David
Deutsch's The Fabric of Reality (Penguin 1998, ISBN 0-14-014690-3). To
quote from the blurb: DD presents "a startlingly integrated, rational
and optimistic world view that combines four strands: quantum physics
and the theories of knowledge, computation and evolution". It could
thus fit in many categories in the list! This is a truly enlightening
book: I have a Ph.D. in particle physics, but despite six years of
university study it was only when I read DD's book that I really
understood the fundamental reality described by quantum physics!
Another interesting book (but which may be less relevant) is Brian
Greene's The Elegant Universe (Vintage 2000, ISBN 0-099-28992-X) which
deals with superstrings and M-theory. I mention it because it speaks to
the parenthetical comments in Answers to Big Questions :: What is out
there? – i.e., that quarks are systems of superstrings; that our
universe is one of many in a multiverse, each created by collisions
between membranes in an 11-dimensional space!
Regards,
Ant
Ant Allan
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t +44 (0) 1522 850620
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