Barnes/Barnes

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Sep 21 2000 - 19:26:06 MDT


><< A good smaller scale treatment of this is Barnes' _Kaleidoscope Century_

>Steve Barnes (is it Steve Barnes?) of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle fame
is
>a very good writer and very libertarian.

Ho ho. That might be so, bur the reference was to John Barnes, a Marxist
(of some sort), and usually a very good writer and excellent thinker,
although a tad sadistic for my tastes.

>I like Closed Timelike paths theory, because it fits
>pretty much of what we see the universe behaving.

If you mean Godel's model (mentioned previously I think), with a rotating
universe, sadly it doesn't.

Damien Broderick



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