Physics and Sainsbury's Choc Cake

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There are loads. Someone already mentioned In Search of Shrodinger's

cat (this is about quantum theory - a bit old hat now!). Have a look

in the " popular science " section of any good bookshop. James Gleik

and maybe Feynman are some authors to look for.

 

The superstring stuff is related to the search for a grand unified

theory (the so called theory of everything), which attempts to unify

the apparent incompatibility of quantum electro dynamics (which is

all about really really small stuff!) and relativity (which is about

really big stuff). Its all still being worked out.

 

Feynman's books are a thought provoking read. They try to explain

some of the principles that crop up again and again in physics and so

are considered rather blase, but are still pretty amazing (like the

uncertainty principle, constant speed of light etc). And also his

quirky view on approaching these problems.

 

I read the elegant universe after hearing a psy-trance music track

called 604 (superstrings were only in their infancy whan I studied

physics and were not on the syllabus) 604 is a reference to the 604

theory about the split in the early universe from 10 dimensions to

the 4 we know today. The other 6 are kind of curled up and are where

the strings live, and give them certain characteristics that go

against conventional(?) theory. You can find loads of stuff relating

physics with music and veganism at the weird and wonderful Fusion

Anomaly site: http://www.fusionanomaly.net/.

 

Anyway enough physics - no-one's answered the query on Sainsbury's

chocolate cake!

 

--

Rob

 

 

 

vegan-network, LamourDelaVie@a... wrote:

> In a message dated 5/30/01 3:54:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

> vegan-network writes:

>

> <<

> So, just to even things up a bit, can I recommend The Elegant

> Universe by Brian Greene if you really want to blow your mind. Its

> supposedly a layman's guide to superstring theory (these are the

> things that quarks are possibly made of). I've found that physics

> gets more and more abstractly philosophical the deeper you get.

> >>

>

> Can you recommend other good books like that? Sounds really

interesting to

> me! Maybe I am a geek too LOL

>

>

> Jo-Ann

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