![]() I hope I managed to convince her that the book was well worth looking at. Isolated like most working scientists in her own specialty, the dating of rocks using radioactive isotopes, she hadn't even heard that a major paradigm shift was under way in the theoretical basis of her field. When I briefly explained the content to K, I soon found that it wasn't just a question of a few interesting details that she hadn't previously come across. Unless you're working at the cutting edge of the subject, that impression is almost certainly false. Max Tegmark's chatty, informal, slightly manic style is on the irritating side, and if you know some physics it may also give you the impression that you're not going to learn anything from Our Mathematical Universe. Okay, let's start by getting the bad news out of the way. On the other hand, she isn't a native speaker of English. A bit exciting, a bit populistic." Blah blah blah. "Well," she smiles, "it doesn't sound so bad. But our guest K, a local nuclear physicist, is more tolerant. ![]() ![]() That's my girlfriend, who's just been unwise enough to let me read her a paragraph of this book. ![]()
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