History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics

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a glorious book
Excellent history of particle physics
The best popular science book yet written
Physics Can Be Fun!
I think you'll want to read this.

The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics
Robert P. Crease , and Charles C. Mann
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The Second Creation is the intimate story of the decades-long scientific quest for "unification," a theory that draws together all matter and energy, from the hottest supernovas to the whirring fragments of the atom. Based on scores of in-depth interviews with such brilliant scientists as Max Planck, Erwin Schrodinger, Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, Sheldon Glashow, and Steven Weinberg, Robert Crease and Charles Mann vividly portray the tense, exciting world of investigators at the last frontier of knowledge. In telling the richly human story of the two generations of scientists who set out to find the "theory of everything," the authors recount a sweeping saga that moves from the early days of Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr arguing in a Copenhagen park to the vast, mile-long atom smashers of today. The Second Creation is a definitive group portrait of twentieth-century physics. Robert P. Crease is an associate professor of philosophy at SUNY--Stony Brook. Award-winning science writer Charles C. Mann is a contributing editor of The Atlantic Monthly and Science magazine. His most recent book is Noah's Choice.

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a glorious book.......2007-05-26

Humans first drawings date to thirty thousand years ago even with Homo Erectus using fire for hundreds of thousands of years . . . all in all, human intellectual activities has been a source of wonder and fear for humanity for awhile now . . . witness the destruction of Jericho so many times . . . the destruction of Athens by the Spartans, Persians, and the killing of Archimedes by a Roman soldier . . . and then, there's the destruction of the Library of Alexandria and the killing of Hypatia around 400 A.D.

Scientists themselves have had misunderstandings about the nature of their activity. In fact, even Galileo thought the euclidean geometry as the very substance of the world. Mathematians were slow to take seriously the philosophical ramifications of non-euclidean geometry; they even made non-standard algebras before Einstein's General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics threw the Newtonian world in a tail spin. Then, Kurt Godel came up with his incompleteness theorems of finite axiomatic systems and a few intellectuals wondered about the very nature of the mathematical sciences. To me, Jacob Bronowski's "Origins of Knowledge and Imagination" is the best synthesis of all these intellectual events,

but, perhaps Crease and Mann's "The Second Creation" is a good place to start seeing some of the issues of the scientific process General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics had on mathematical science as a whole. What's remarkable is that outside of the final chapters realization that scientific theory is about syntheses and analyses is really syntheses, is that they don't understand the nature of abstraction in mathematical science and the unified treatment of mathematics and science that Jacob Bronowski shows in his "Origin's of Knowledge and Imagination."

Still, outside of initial physics courses, most people don't have the time to study the mathematics of the symmetry theories of the unified field theories mathematical science has pointed towards(and cosmology); better to read a good physics book like "Project Physics Course" and then "The Second Creation", and then! Jacob Bronowski's "Origins of Knowledge and Imagination." Also, Weinburg's "First three Minutes", and Guth's "Inflationary Universe." are good reads for the cosmology end of where man stands intellectually today.

I'd like to end with saying that "The Second Creation" is great for showing the human spirit of exploration which 99% of humanity has and will continue to miss even in a post molecular nanotechnology world where they don't have to learn . . . anything! ever!

If you have the intellectual spirit, you'll read this book . . . so, it goes without saying that I hope I've pointed out some interesting things for those who've had enough natural curiousity that every human child is born with anyways to search out this book anyways!

Excellent history of particle physics.......2002-03-01

This book is an excellent choice if you are looking for an easy-to-read history of the development of particle physics in the twentieth century. The book almost reads like a novel. The authors lead us on a tour of the most critical breakthroughs from the discovery of the electron to that of the top quark. Each episode describes not only the physics but also provides interesting insights into the physicists who made the contributions. It is a great diary of man's attempts to discover the smallest components of matter.

The best popular science book yet written.......2002-01-16

This book has proved beyond any reasonable doubt that the telling of the story of 20th century fundamental physics is a task that should not be entrusted to physicists. No, it appears a journalist and a philosopher are not only able to bring the story to life in a way that almost all physics text books fail to do, but at the same time to never lose sight of the important scientific issues.

I thought that I understood these issues well, having been a researcher in the area myself until 1987, but I have to report that they filled embarrassingly large gaps in my knowledge, particularly in relation to experiments, including in subjects that I used to teach to undergraduates.

I would recommend this book to anyone, but most of all to those who call themselves practitioners in the subject, to remind them of how, if at all, what they do fits in to the bigger picture, and also to remind them, to quote Murray Gell Mann (who was probably quoting someone else at the time), that "the best instrument that a theoretician has is his waste paper basket". As the mathematical tangents that theoreticians have gone off on in the last twenty years get ever more bizarre and disconnected from reality, I fully expect this to be full to overflowing soon.

Physics Can Be Fun!.......2000-02-14

Given, I find the sciences interesting, but I never thought I would find myself endlessly turning pages of a physics book. The lives of these physicists was amazing and sometimes even more interesting than their discoveries. If you are at all interested in a "behind-the-scenes" look at post-Einsteinian physics, I would whole-heartedly recommend this book. I guarantee you'll be pleasently surprised. (Now if only there was a biology version of this book...)

I think you'll want to read this........1998-01-24

I noticed this book in a store, picked it up, and almost couldn't put it down! It rewards the reader with insight on the current theoretical structure of physics, excellent background on how it got to where it currently is, and a wonderful personal view of the Theorists and Experimenters who helped to "get it there". Great for physicists, students, or interested laymen. A well written and well balanced book on a complex subject (up to and including the Standard Theory, and Grand Unified Theories).

Nobel Dreams: Power, Deceit and the Ultimate Experiment

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Trashing Nobelist Rubbia
Academic Reality
A great read

Nobel Dreams: Power, Deceit and the Ultimate Experiment
Gary Taubes
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Trashing Nobelist Rubbia.......2003-10-30

The author trashed a well known physicist for reasons totally beyond me. Most super-stars of science have huge egos and many detracters.
Kerry Mullis, Robert Good, and David Baltimore have all three been accused of arrogance so its nothing new.
Incidently,the author trashed Nobelist Prusiner too so Rubbia is in good company!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aside from The Patchwork Mouse and False Prophets, very few journalists do justice to the subject of scientific fraud!!!!

Academic Reality.......2002-08-07

Contains a good combination of hard science and the politics of actually getting stuff done. I appreciated the details of experimental particle physics, but the best part of the book is the insider perspective on getting grant money, timing the delivery of experimental results and positioning oneself for recognition from the Nobel committee. The interplay between the theorists and experimentalists was also illuminating. The only negative factor's were the needless comments on what people were wearing at a meeting or how handsome/pretty they were that day and I believe (not positive since the only account I have is the book) a few remarks that were quite obviously taken out of context and the author failed to acknowledge this.

A great read.......2001-01-04

This book hooked me so completely that when I came across it in the library I read it from cover to cover standing (then sitting) in the aisle. Anyone with an interest in high-energy physics or academic politics with enjoy it immensely.

The End of Physics: The Myth of a Unified Theory

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One of the Best of its Type
I actually read this book
Who says physics can't be a page-turner?
The Physics of Reality vs. The Physics of Religion
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The End of Physics: The Myth of a Unified Theory
David Lindley
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A history of the attempts to find a unifying theory that would make sense of the entire physical world; a forceful argument that it will never be found; and a warning that the compromises necessary to produce a final theory may undermine the rules of doing good science.

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One of the Best of its Type.......2005-06-23

David Lindley's The End of Physics is yet another excellent addition to the growing list of outstanding physics books. Lindley is a long time editor of Science magazine and accomplished author.

The book is a lucid and well-written text that provides an overview of recent developments in theoretical physics as well as an examination of what these developments mean. I found the author's discussion of general relativity and inflation to be particularly well handled - better than is often the case in these types of works. Lindley's exception strength, however, is his discussion of contemporary theoretical developments.

The quest for a comprehensive "Theory of Everything" has become the Holy Grail of modern physics. The meaning of any such theory, however, has not been the subjected of much popular discussion. Cutting-edge theoretical physics are complex and inundated with esoteric mathematical constructs. These formulations appear to be driven in large part by mathematical expediency rather than empirical evidence; resulting in models seem excessively contrived and ad hoc in nature. Variables appear to be arbitrarily adjusted to account for unwanted variance - leaving something that looks like a modern version of Ptolemy's universal model (a complex intellectual constructs that bare little resemblance to reality).

The only shortcoming of the book is its lack of a more direct discussion of philosophical issues pertaining to science. For instance, do mathematical and scientific theories represent reality in some "real" way or are they largely just useful metaphorical constructs. It has been my experience that scientific realism and an associated narrow verificationist view of truth are often unchallenged assumptions of philosophical modernism. Lindley talks around this question; however, a more direct discussion would be instructive. Is science the sole means of acquiring and testing knowledge? Upon examination it appears that we possess a range of logical and moral truths that are not obtained through scientific induction. Regardless of one's view this is an important, and often overlooked, question to ponder.

Overall, The End of Physics is an excellent book. It provides a good overview and discussion of modern developments in theoretical physics. I would recommend it to a general audience; however, it may be a bit dense of a starting point for someone with no exposure to quantum theory or cosmology.

I actually read this book.......2003-02-20

My opinion of this book is quite different from some of the other reviewers. This book is neither a skeptical anti-science nor bizarre anti-Mormon rant. Rather, by considering the history of particle physics and cosmology Lindley shows again and again that scientific theories are only myths at best, unless they are backed up with solid emperical evidence. This evidence comes via experiments.

Lindley does not say a "Theory of Everything" is impossible, he simply states that if a "Theory of Everthing" is going to have any meaning, it must be testable through emperical experiments, just like any other theory which science accepts as the best explaination of a given phenomena.

In other words, hard work and imagination have gotten science this far and it needs to be applied again in this particular endeavor. There are no shortcuts. Though the book is probably a little dated now, it still provides an excellent format for one to recieve an introduction to particle physics and cosmology. I really enjoyed it and highly recommend it.

Who says physics can't be a page-turner?.......2001-09-27

Are the cosomologists correct, or is it the particle physicists? Does quantum theory really invalidate Einstein's deterministic universe? Is the concept of a 26-dimensional universe credible, or are we as enamored with numerology as those in times of yore? Can science provide us with more than a myth about the creation of the universe? Each new discovery seems to beg more questions.

The essence of this book is the tension that Lindley so magically captures--the tension between ideas, between scientists, and between philosophies. Lindley enthusiastically relates the drama; he catches the spirit and the excitement of discovery, as well as anxiety over some difficult unknowns.

This book is a thrilling ride through some of the most captivating intellectual territory of the 20th century. Do not be put off by the complex nature of the subject matter; this is one of the most accessible science books that I have read. The energy of the ideas certainly outweighs the challenges presented by the difficult subject matter.

This book is a great read for passionate learners.

The Physics of Reality vs. The Physics of Religion.......2001-06-21

Lindley's fine summary of the current state of physics mentions organized religion a few times. He says that "simplicity is the religion of cosmology."

After living the life of an orthodox Mormon for forty years until leaving the fold permanently five years ago I am now comparing my old religion to just another "theory of everything."

At least Lindley is free to question and scrutinize his fellow scientists. But in religion there is no check and balance system for reality.

For instance Mormonism teaches that the planet named Kolob is the center of universe and domicile of God. This absurd claim is treated with religious fervor in the same as many scientific theories are held sacred and special.

From Lindley I learned that skepticism is healthy and that we have a long long way to go before we really start understanding the universe and ourselves in it. Fascinating read.

One things seems for sure. We don't know.

repetative.......1999-03-24

This book was well written, and explains the chronolgy of physics. Although when David Lindley describes a certain topic he extends the information too much. A one paragraph summary of a topic gets extended at times to many pages. A difficult read if you are under 14

Unification of Fundamental Forces: The First 1988 Dirac Memorial Lecture

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The makers of New Physics.

Unification of Fundamental Forces: The First 1988 Dirac Memorial Lecture
Abdus Salam
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This is an expanded version of the third Dirac Memorial Lecture, given in 1988 by the Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam. Salam's lecture presents an overview of the developments in modern particle physics from its inception at the turn of the century to the present theories seeking to unify all the fundamental forces. In addition, two previously unpublished lectures by Paul Dirac, and Werner Heisenberg are included. These lectures provide a fascinating insight into their approach to research and the developments in particle physics at that time. Nonspecialists, undergraduates and researchers will find this a fascinating book. It contains a clear introduction to the major themes of particle physics and cosmology by one of the most distinguished contemporary physicists.

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The makers of New Physics........2001-07-14

This book is an excellent master peice of Nobel Laureate Professor Abdus Salam which describes the legendery work of Nobel Laureate Paul.Dirac.This book explains the life and work of Paul.Dirac who is the father of Quantum Mechanics. Paul.Dirac was the mentor of Professor Abdus Salam in Cambridge University and also a long term visitor of The Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics ,Trieste ,Italy and Imperial College , London. From : Zarak Khan N.E.D University Karachi Pakistan.

The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything

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Very little information about strings
Decent, but outdated and rambling
A good book but not for beginners
Overview of particle (not astro) physics since quantum
Well written and informative

The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything
John Gribbin
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While meeting luminaries from Einstein to Steven Weinberg, we are treated to clear explanations of what in the world they're talking about, whether it's the "collapse of the wave function" or "high-energy particle acceleration." This material is especially fascinating to those of us without much mathematical inclination, as Gribbin manages to show the state-of-the-art in modern physics without forcing us to go back to school for a few years. (There is an appendix, "Group Theory for Beginners," for interested parties.) Writers like Gribbin are helping us reclaim the time when a little learning was all it took to understand science--and The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything might just convince you that it's not so hard, after all. --Rob Lightner

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In days of yore, educated men and women would avidly follow new developments in the world of science; these days it seems to be too much trouble--relativity was bad enough, but "N-dimensional space"? Fortunately for those of us who have trouble visualizing parallel parking, much less quarks and gluons, John Gribbin is back with an up-to-date primer on subatomic physics. The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything refers as much to the reader's search for understanding as to the physicist's search for clever theories and experimental evidence to back them up, and Gribbin's prose is up to both tasks.While meeting luminaries from Einstein to Steven Weinberg, we are treated to clear explanations of what in the world they're talking about, whether it's the "collapse of the wave function" or "high-energy particle acceleration." This material is especially fascinating to those of us without much mathematical inclination, as Gribbin manages to show the state-of-the-art in modern physics without forcing us to go back to school for a few years. (There is an appendix, "Group Theory for Beginners," for interested parties.) Writers like Gribbin are helping us reclaim the time when a little learning was all it took to understand science--and The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything might just convince you that it's not so hard, after all. --Rob Lightner

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Very little information about strings.......2007-04-10

This book was a disappointment, while there is some excellent background on the structure of matter and quantum mechanics, there is very little on the topic of superstrings. In reading through it, I got the impression that the segments on strings were an afterthought, something that needed to be mentioned but in no great detail.
If you need some knowledge of quantum mechanics and the historical development of the understanding of matter, then this book is worth reading. However, if your interest is first and foremost that of the current theories of strings and superstrings, then quite frankly this book is not worth your time and money.

Decent, but outdated and rambling.......2006-05-16

If you are looking for an introduction to the newest theories in astrophysics, this is not the book for you. It has nearly the same brief intro to quantum mechanics as all the other books on the topic, then Gribbin simply wanders from topic to topic discussing weird phenomenon and theories and never really tying them together. He's got a ton of speculation about String Theory, but he never really provides any reason that you should believe in it other than that it sounds really cool.

He is also a bit behind the times (not necessarily his fault), for theoretical physics has (mostly) moved past the particular theories he presents, though they are helpful for understanding the most recent theories.

In all, this is not a book I would recommend. String Theory is beginning to collapse, and there are a few books coming out this year detailing the rise and fall of String Theory. One of these books would probably be a better introduction to String Theory that this one, even if you disagree with their conclusions.

Overall Grade: C-

A good book but not for beginners.......2005-06-14

Yes, perhaps a little slow on the introduction and a drag for those of who had a beginners course in quantum physics or a college physical science background. But the author does an excellent job, in my opinion, of explaining in detail WHY it is that we're searching for SUSY, not just the buzzwords of this science for the impressionable readers. It also keeps a good psychological reality check, and defends certain theories over others; a very honest and unbiased book, and an interesting one too. Thanks!

Overview of particle (not astro) physics since quantum.......2003-11-23

If you haven't had a solid introduction to quantum physics, this book is not the place to start -- Gribbin's excellent earlier book (Schroedinger's Cat) is the place to start. However, if you've read about the Cat and have a decent conceptual grasp, this book is a good update. Gribbin's strength is explaining the concepts, independent of the intense math that's involved in physics. The science is so complicated that this is clearly not an easy task, yet Gribbin is, in my opinion, quite good at bringing the concepts to a level that I can mostly, usually, get a grasp of. On this level, this book covers what's happened in physics from the quantum revolution up to the present. Superstrings, Symmetry, & TOE is really not the best title for it though, because I read the first half of the book waiting for Gribbin to get to any of the title concepts.

I don't think Superstrings is nearly as solid an effort by Gribbin as Cat was. I had a hard time grasping the symmetry concept. I was solid on the review of quantum mechanics (which was well done, but was not enough information to make me suggest skipping Schroedinger's Cat). I was right with him through the spin function, and I was doing pretty well all through quarks. When he (finally!) got to strings, I could understand again. Unfortunately, all through the discussion of symmetry -- which I read and re-read several times -- I just wasn't getting it.

All in all, I think this is a pretty solid book for covering the physics concepts of the last 70 years or so, but I recommend reading Schroedinger's Cat, or at least having a conceptual understanding of quantum mechanics first.

Well written and informative.......2001-08-05

If you are looking for more than " Oh, Golly" physics with some real mathematics, then this will be disappointing, but if you like Richard Feynman type informative lectures that name the names and give an understandable overview, then this is a well written book with history and facts and references. I got is as a gift from a friend who was trying to be of help! It was more help than some of my Google searches on the Internet!

Alternative Medicine and Miracles: A Grand Unified Theory

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Alternative Medicine and Miracles: A Grand Unified Theory
Reginald O. Crosley
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From the twentieth century to the present, the scientific medical establishment is taking consideration of alternative healing practices. Having witnessed positive results, medical researchers are facing urgent inquiries. According to author Reginald O. Crosley, M.D., the exotic scientific principles revealed in quantum mechanics, relativity theories, strings theory, and chaos theory, directly correspond to alternative medicines and miraculous healings.

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Nigeria's Most Famous Crackpot Scientist
a future
Oyibo is a fraudster... Don't be fooled by him.
An objective review without the hood
Oyibo needs a shrink, not a Nobel.

Grand Unified Theorem (2nd Edition)
Gabriel A. Oyibo
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General theorem providing a mathematical basis for a grand Unified Field Theory (GUT) is presented. The proof of he theorem is shown to be a recent work entitled "Generalized Mathematical Proof of Einstein's Theory Using a New Group Theory", which has been reviewed by the American Mathematical Society (MR 98e 83007). This work provided generic solutions to the unified field, from which both the Newtonian and Einsteinian gravitational fields seem to be recoverable. Furthermore, the electromagnetic filed seem to be recoverable also from these solutions. Since the investigation does not assume the existence of particles a priori, matter could therefore be interpreted as high filed modification of space-time predicted by Einstein's general relativity theory.

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Nigeria's Most Famous Crackpot Scientist.......2005-06-28

Crank Dot Net gave Oyibo its highest rating - a five star or "CRANKIEST." Crank Dot Net is the authority on "cranks, crackpots, kooks and loons on the net." A professor of physics will ROFL (Roll On the Floor Laughing) at Oyibo's schizophrenic theories.

a future.......2005-03-24

the reviewer has not been able to lay his hands on the book , but was impressed with the television interview, in Nigeria , during his visit on the propagation of the theorem,while the mathematical analysis interest me , its correlation to human behaviour is the best proof of the theorem , and if i may get him, anyone can apply it , he only wrote down the equation of a zero of nature, a zero of life , a zero of everything, so while worry , if we make analogies to the living bible,the mathematical analysis will improve the rating to 5 , if well understood.whichever way, all the best with the guts!!!

Oyibo is a fraudster... Don't be fooled by him........2004-12-25

It's hard for me to believe the non-scientists who are defending Gabriel Oyibo. If you are a scientist you would obviously see he is trying to force a Nobel prize and all these other prizes onto himself by using some *amateurish* political pressure tactics which won't work. If you are a non-scientist, please don't be fooled by this guy... he is a [...]. If he is so accomplished why do you think he is still at Bridgeport and not in Caltech, MIT or some other big school? C'mon think about it. Why does he run a school that goes by the weird name of "OFFAPIT Insitute of Techology" with a shabby website on Geocities (which is a free site)? Why doesn't OFAPPIT have its own server if it was a genuine, registered institute of higher education (e.g. www.ofappit.edu)? Would any sane and smart black student ever want to study there?
I believe in equality of the races (I am not white and I am not black either), and I believe that someday a *genuine* brilliant black physicist will come along and win the Nobel prize, somebody who is not a [...] like Oyibo. Maybe now is not the time but I'm sure it will come. You should listen to Dr. Scott Williams, he is an honest man regarding his opinions, and I agree with him. He can be considered an accomplished Black scientist and has the virtue of honesty (unlike Oyibo). There are many accomplished black scientist, though it doesn't mean that they have to have the Nobel prize to show their worth. Note Oyibo's deception in the following:

1. Oyibo claims: "Briefed United States Senate on Unified Field Theory on January 27, 2000 in Washington, D.C. Gij, j = 0". Not true, you can check with the White House and they will verify it for you. Better still get your black senator to check out this information for you if you are truly seeking the truth.

2. Oyibo claims "Has been nominated for the Presidential Medal of Science and the Nobel Prize awards. These nominations have been supported by distinguished professors from prestigious universities such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)". Not true, you can check with Faculty members at MIT.

3. "The Cambridge International Biographical Centre (IBC-England) has conferred the following honors on Professor Oyibo the International Personalty of the Year 2000-2001; 2000 Outstanding Scientist for the 21st Century; and among one of the One Hundred Most Outstanding Citizens of the World. Referenced in: Who's Who in America ;Who's Who in Science and Engineering; Who's Who in the World". More lies you can check the sources yourselves.

4. Oyibo says: "Using the newly developed group theory methods he generalized and proved Einstein=s theorem (theory) in an article entitled GENERALIZED Mathematical Proof of Einstein=s Theory Using A New Group Theory@ which was published in a Russian and an American journal. This proof of Einstein=s theory has been recognized by the American Mathematical Society(AMS) in its Mathematical Reviews (ME) journal, MR 98e83007". What you should now is that having a paper in the ME does not mean it is a brilliant paper, let alone a Nobel prize winning work. I have my own papers in the ME, so does that mean I should also be running for the Nobel prize???

C'mon let's get real. Don't make a mockery out of black people by supporting a [...] like Oyibo. Black people are capable people and should not be cheated by one of their own. Oyibo is playing on politics of race to get something which he doesn't deserve. Be patient for a day will come when a black scientist will present ground-breaking work deserving the Nobel. The step now is to increase the interest of intelligent young black people in the sciences and increase their attendance of science subjects. I'm sure in the long term this will be beneficial...

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An objective review without the hood.......2004-07-13

The good thing about this publication is that the ideas presented are not that far-fetched. It's only astounding that after all these years since Einstein, no one has come up with anything quite as close, yet novel. Another bonus is that the content is quite accessible; as a reader barely requires more than a knowledge of college-level Calculus and Differential Equations to grasp the presentation. I must say that the concepts are outlined in a near poetic manner. This is what I especially enjoyed. The book will make for interesting reading for math, physics and abstract science enthusiasts. I hope the author's work gets extensive review and eventual corroboration. Kudos.

*Off Topic* To the reviewer below:
Thanks for the glimmer of insight into the tragically insecure white boy's most introspective thoughts -- albeit however trite and utterly boring. Now if only you could prove your centuries' old wet dream to be true and muster up enough acumen to construct a simple critique of a book. Oh I forgot, your kind shouldn't be subject to such a daunting quandary after your incredible achievement of having been born with white skin. How original.

Oyibo needs a shrink, not a Nobel........2004-07-03

Oh boy is this one good for a laugh. Oyibo is a crackpot "physicist" whose ramblings are more akin to an evangelist's sermon that serious science. The reason why no one knows about this "theory" is that it's hogwash. Yet, it's precisely the kind of nonsense that works its way into the consciousness of blacks who swallow it's claims excitedly, desperate to offer counterexamples to the centuries of evidence that show blacks as inferior in all areas of intellectual achievement. They are being told lies and believing them and educators are generally afraid to halt the flow of disinformation at the risk of being called racist. If it wasn't so sad it would be funny. Well, it IS funny.

Oyibo will be committed to an insane asylum before he ever wins a Nobel Prize.

Universe on a T-Shirt: The Quest for the Theory of Everything

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Still Haven't Found What We're Looking For!
A Must Read for the Scientifically Challenged
No double slits, but still good
Easy read on a challenging subject
on science, simplicity, and the quest for truth...

Universe on a T-Shirt: The Quest for the Theory of Everything
Dan Falk
Manufacturer: Arcade Publishing
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No scientific quest is as exciting and elusive as the search to understand the Universe. Falk's book places this search in its historical context, tracing the quest from its roots in ancient Greece to the twenty-first century, through the breakthroughs of Newton, Maxwell, and Einstein, up to the excitement of "string theory" and today's efforts to merge quantum theory with general relativity. With as much emphasis on history as on science, Falk's enlightening and entertaining book is aimed very much for the general reader. The search for a Unified Theory is full of quirky personalities, interesting tales, and moments of brilliance-high science and high drama.

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Still Haven't Found What We're Looking For! .......2005-06-04

"So what, exactly, do we mean by a `Theory of Everything'?," Falk asks (eventually) in his very last chapter (p 212). We mean, he says in his very first chapter, "the universe explained" in a form so "concise, simple and elegant" that it'd fit on a T-shirt. (p 2)

And THAT he says, is the aim of all science!

There are only THREE problems with this claim.

FIRST: most current scientists would deny that that's what they're seeking. And Falk belatedly admits as much at the very end of his book. "I may have given the impression," he writes, disingenuously, "that every physicist is obsessed with finding the Holy Grail -- the Theory of Everything. Most are not." In fact, he agrees, most, like the late great Richard Feynman, are "just looking to find out more about the world." (p 214)

SECOND: there's really very little evidence that scientists in the past sought a Theory of Everything either. This will be abundantly clear to anyone who reads this book from cover to cover -- because it is in large measure a pop history of physics from the Pre-Socratics in Ancient Greece to the strung-out, p-brane theorists of today. (Pun!)

Falk uses the "Universe on a T-shirt" idea as his organizing principle, and it enables him to write a short, snappy and engaging story. But he provides no evidence (`cos there is none) that, say, Copernicus, Galileo, Galvani, Oersted, Faraday, Maxwell, or any one of a host of other Greats was actually seeking a `Theory of Everything.' A case might be made for Newton and/or Einstein, but even they were more reserved and self-effacing, more hesitant in their claims than some of today's self-appointed Spokesmen for Science.

THIRD: If what we're really seeking is a theory that will "explain" everything but be concise enough to fit on a T-shirt, then we've already succeeded. Assuming we use the ENTIRE T-shirt.

But, that's not what Falk has in mind. What he envisions is less an "explanation" than a slogan; an equation that'll reduce all knowledge to a sound bite.

But, what'd be the point? No matter what equation "we" came up with, it'd still not be self-evident. It'd only "explain" the Universe to those who'd been educated to the point where they could understand the equation ... and so wouldn't need the T-shirt!

And, as for the Homer Simpsons among us, the T-shirt'd be about as useful and edifying as an advertising slogan!
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Though these points may undermine Falk's organizing principle they won't affect your enjoyment of this book. After all, it's not a Doctoral Dissertation; it's a pop history.

Readers with a good grounding in science will be pleasantly surprised by Falk's ability to convey the Big Ideas, though most'll probably be disappointed by his decision to eschew the math. (Incidentally, non-physicists should be warned -- Chemistry and Biology are at best only bit players in Falk's story).

Readers with a good grounding in History will be pleased to find that the story is NOT reduced to a childish morality play in which the Big Bad Church tries wrong-headedly to suppress the Courageous, Individualistic Scientists who are engaged in the disinterested pursuit of Truth! In this regard, Falk's treatment of Copernicus and Galileo should serve as a model for all future popularizers. On the other hand, the knowledgeable reader will be disappointed that the Pre-Socratics get an entire chapter while the Arabs get little more than a page. As if incohate mumblings about "atoms" could measure up to the Hindu-Arabic number system, or algebra, or trigonometry, or ...

But, these are really quite minor quibbles!

Honestly!

You'll enjoy this book! It's well-written and engaging, and is a remarkably easy read considering the subject matter.

If you read nothing else in this book, read "What Does It All Mean?" - a chapter on "Science, God and the Limits of Understanding." It's excellent!

A Must Read for the Scientifically Challenged.......2004-11-25

For someone like myself coming from a traditional Arts background and with a 25 year career in the Human Services where the word "quantum " anything is a foreign language, I am used to being on the outside looking in when it comes to the mysterious ( but compelling ) world of science. Not any longer. Reading Universe on a T shirt was nothing short of an epiphany for me. The author's well thought out presentation and friendly conversational language , complete with a well placed dose of subtle humour just when you thought things were getting a bit dry, made this book user friendly at minimum and warmly engaging at its best.

Being an amateur star gazer with a life long interest in Astronomy, I was drawn to this book because of its relevance to various theories in Astronomy and Space exploration, most of which escaped my very limited knowledge of Science of any kind. Perhaps it was the quirky title and interesting cover image that captured my attention and lead me to take a chance on what I hoped wouldn't be just another science book that I couldn;t understand. I was pleasantly surprised and thrilled to read a comprehensive but not overly detailed history of all the "great s" of Science and their discoveries as well as an overview of all the major theories. When I realized, with some degree of what I can only describe as shock, that I actually understood at a very basic level, Mr. Falk's presentation of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity( the wonderful illustration of Alice and Bernice on a moving train and the accompanying explanation really clinched it for me )I began to harbour wild eyed thoughts that maybe my guidance counsellors were wrong all those years ago when they told me that I was a "people person" destined for a career in the Humanities and Human Services exclusively. This book actually made me believe,well for a brief moment anyway, that perhaps a potential scientist has been laying dormant inside of me all this time , waiting for just the right moment to be awakened..

Especially insightful and satisfying was Mr. Falk's final chapter, "what does it all mean? Science, God and the limits of understanding" and how he brings it all together for a brief but provocative contemplation of philsophy and spirituality and how they integrate with scientific thought...or do they?

This book will be a permanent fixture in my library for reference as well as inspiration and I eagerly look forward to the author's next book.

No double slits, but still good.......2004-07-31

This book is really a history of the scientific search for the structure of the universe since Greek times. It does not stray from a its direct path to the latest thinking about string theory. Thus, though quantum theory is often at the center of the discussion, the double slit experiment is not mentioned, since the author apparently feels it is not necessary for his main point that quantum theory is "weird". I agree with the author's approach on this point. There is also essentially no math in the book. The only formula is Einstein's famous E = M times c-squared, and there is a numerical example to illustrate the inverse square concept, and that's it for math. I've done a lot of reading about quantum theory over the last few years and am a math professor by trade, but still found this one of the best books I have read. I especially enjoyed how the author handled the history. It is true the last chapter on the meaning of it all could have been omitted, but I feel the book is stronger for including this philosopical material. Highly recommended.

Easy read on a challenging subject.......2004-03-30

This book is a very easy read for even those who are non-scientists but are interested in the history of science. This book focuses mostly on cosmology and particle physics and the attempts made by scientists to unite the two areas with one theory ... the Theory of Everything.

Right now the two biggest theories in physics are Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, which deals with gravity and big things (i.e: galaxies and stars), and the Quantum Theory, which deals with small things (i.e: atoms and quarks). The poblem is that the two of them don't mesh, they don't play well together.

Falk's book is an overview of the history leading to these two discoveries, and the search for a theory that will explain these two theories in one framework.

Very easy read, very informative, highly recommended.

on science, simplicity, and the quest for truth..........2004-03-11

Dan Falk's Universe on a T-Shirt is an informative and entertaining tour of mainstream science-from Democritus to string theory-guided by a single, reining principle: that science is the pursuit of an aesthetic of simplicity, and that the culmination of this pursuit, the theory of everything, will be simple enough to grace a t-shirt.

Written in clear, clever, friendly prose, the book is easy to understand yet thorough; it serves as an excellent introduction for novices in the topics of physics and cosmology, but is full of fun facts, amusing anecdotes, and intriguing insights for the more knowledgeable reader. History is brought to life through brief biographical portraits of each scientist and thinker who has played a key role in the ongoing search for the ultimate theory, and the reader emerges from Falk's journey with an exciting sense of not only what is going on in science, but of what science itself is all about.

Speckled with illuminating quotes from physicists working in the field, Universe on a T-shirt dares to ask not only where physics is headed, but whether or not it is headed down the right path. Should notions like beauty and simplicity necessarily pave the road to truth, Falk asks. And will the ultimate theory mark the end of physics? Falk doesn't cower from the philosophy that lurks at the heart of physics. Instead, he embraces it, and allows the reader to delve into some of the most fundamental questions about the nature of reality. The author sympathetically writes of the layman's sense of cosmic alienation-perhaps this book can help those afflicted feel at home in the universe, and a part of the inspiring quest to truly understand it.

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An Important Work

Truth goes beyond the pop presentation

I wanted to poke my eyes out

This is NOT what you're thinking!

Science Declares Our Universe IS Intelligently Designed
Robert A. Herrmann
Manufacturer: Xulon Press
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An Important Work.......2006-11-03

Science Declares Our Universe Is Intelligently Designed explains how mathematical modeling can demonstrate that the behavior of all physical systems, from astronomical to atomic and everything in-between including biological, are designed. It is a new approach to an old problem. I read about a book a week, mostly in my field of molecular and cell biology. I find that I can breeze though most without much effort. I also read extensively in the area of creation and evolution, both books for and against evolution and creation, most of which are easy reads. This book was more challenging, but it has the potential of being more important than most other books on this topic. Most books on both sides in this area contain much fluff and repeat the same points over and over. As I am not a mathematician or astronomer, it is more difficult for me to evaluate this work, but it clearly needs to be evaluated because, if correct, it could revolutionize science. I have read some of the author's other works in the scientific literature (he has published 62 articles in the scientific literature, many in leading journals) which were well done. Dr. Herrmann has a PhD with honors in math from American University and a BA, also with honors, from Johns Hopkins University. He was, until his recent retirement, a full professor of mathematics at the US naval Academy. One could hardly have better qualifications than this. This work is not in the class of Lee Strobel's book, which is excellent for the general reader, but more scholarly, yet well written for educated laymen. I encourage others to read this work and evaluate it. It could be an important groundbreaking work. Only time will tell.

Truth goes beyond the pop presentation.......2006-11-01

It has been a while since I read this so I am putting a review out based on generalities from the last read. However I will get more specific on the second read and post another review. I am also reviewing from a perspective of studying several other works by this author.

Like one reviewer of this book, we typically find it easier to read the novels written so frequently on the scientific subjects including this subject. However, those "novels" often go no further than stroking people's pre-conceived ideas. If there is anything both the secular and non-secular communities need now it is a fresh unbiased approach in the pursuit of truth. By this I do not mean without premise - I mean without the dishonest employment of power-position exploitation to try to indoctrinate people by taking advantage of their ignorance. Scientific writing today is full of this exploitation where speculation is cast as fact.

I have found Dr, Herrmann's writings refreshing in this sense. Surely he has the strong formulated opinions on many matters. I would expect that from those really pursuing truth. Eventually they should find settled truth as foundation for further pursuit. In the midst of this he rigorously pursues the realm of logic - that realm which keeps the check and balance of consistency both in everday life and as overseer of the Sciences.

Dr. Hermmann makes it clear that to read his works requires a certain measure of prerequisite understanding. Not having that understanding is of course no reason to declare the book "boring" - for that surely will be true for the uninitiated. To one who is sufficiently initiated and interested it is exciting to pursue.

An exciting realm is the capability of (mathematical) logic to extend our exploration of implications into the realm beyond the physical limitations. Dr. Herrmann has taken this logic into that realm. The realm of the super-mind is shown to be logically consistent. To say that there is no supreme intelligence - whether one attributes this to the God of the Bible or not, is shown to be illogical.

I surely recommend this book.

I wanted to poke my eyes out .......2006-05-22

Let me start by saying I did not read this entire book. In fact I read less than 20% of it(I skimmed through the rest). The reason is, this book was so boring and dry I wanted to shoot myself after the first few pages. If you are a science nut or a math wiz, you may enjoy this book. If you are looking for a good, easy to read book giving evidence for intelligent design - look elsewhere. I recommend The Case For A Creator by Lee Strobel or The Origin Of The Universe by Emerson Cooper. I have read them both and they are both much better than this book.

Bottom Line: Save your time and money and buy something else.

This is NOT what you're thinking!.......2003-01-30

This book is a gem -- buy it. The only reason I didn't give it five stars is that the copy I had contained a number of spell-checked typographical errors (e.g. "most" instead of "must") that I found amusing, but nit-pickers may find annoying or distracting. Also the cover material could be improved, but I prefer a bargain over slickness and substance over appearance.

This book is not at all like most books dealing with creation and/or evolution. I was reminded more of books like Douglas Hofstadter's _Metamagical Themas_ and popular-level works on chaos theory, fractals, and the strange implications of modern physics. Professor Herrmann's attempts to explain the mathematical logic of his work should hold some interest for people involved in a number of fields such as computer simulation, linguistics, probability, advanced physics, etc.

Professor Herrmann does not bombastically state that one view is obvious and anyone who doesn't accept it must be an idiot. Rather, he demonstrates that at a fundamental level, the purely naturalistic (atheistic), designed/theistic-evolutionary, and direct creation frameworks are equally valid, and therefore secondary evidences should be examined without ruling out any of them.

What was especially fascinating to me was the way Dr. Herrmann illustrated his strict mathematical proofs (available on the Web) with amusing and imaginative extended analogies. In our every day modern life, we experience examples of human thought producing designed phenomena that purposely appear to be chaotic but have an underlying logic. These phenomena can be encoded in compressed forms, filed and catalogued with labels that are essentially further compression or packaging of the phenomena, edited by the insertion of similar media, etc. Then by simply popping a videotape, computer CD, or DVD into a machine, the designed phenomena comes to life in all its glory.

Dr. Herrmann shows that we can just as easily believe that God created the Universe in a similar manner. Although we can't know if He simply thought up the universe in a mature form, or if in some sense He created it in a virtual or "parallel" form (or if our concepts of such things can begin to do justice to the workings of God), these simple images give us some basic concept of how a universe could appear suddenly but with an appearance of age. Dr. Herrmann explains with as little math as he can (you may need to brush up on your set theory and logic) that this is a perfectly valid possibility.

Dr. Herrmann completed his original, purely mathematical work in this area before the Intelligent Design movement was formed, and has since expanded it to (in general terms) a Grand Unified Theory of Everything. As noted, it is open to several interpretations, but this should encourage everyone to take a good look at it.

What I liked best about this book is that it serves notice that belief in an active and rapid Divine creation of a universe with many appearances of age is logically valid, that there may be (and in many cases today there is) intelligent design operating to produce apparently random or chaotic phenomena, and that the question is not, "How do we explain everything without reference to God?" not "How many universes does it take to explain away the Anthropic Principle?" but "Are there evidences that THIS universe, and everything in it as it is, was more likely produced by design than by the raw forces within it?"

Again, Dr. Herrmann does not use bombast and pontification, but he does burst the pompous bubbles of scientific snobs -- he doesn't insist that only one choice is intelligent, but he demonstrates that it is intelligent to make an open choice rather than insisting on naturalistic blinders.

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