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Ant Allen recommends...
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!
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