From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Aug 09 1997 - 05:56:31 MDT
At 10:03 AM 8/8/97 CST, Rick wrote:
> Michael Talbot's "The Holographic Universe".
Yawn.
(Sorry, Rick. This is one of the `woolly masters'.)
Lee Smolin's book on budding universes turns out to have something of the
same metaphysical (Leibnizean) tendency [luckily, about a zillion times
more rigorous than poor Talbot], but alas he finished it before M-theory
really kicked in. In utter ignorance of the fine-grain detail, I note that
it looks to me as if Smolin's loopy space and brane theory might converge
in a geometrodynamical TOE.
Damien Broderick
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