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Re: Penrose's new book

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JanPB wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 8:20:31 PM UTC-7, Ross A. Finlayson wrote:
> > R. Penrose's book is pretty great.
> >
> > It's a pretty good single source for
> > a lot of what is under consideration
> > in foundations as would need reconcile
> > with theory and experiment.
> >
> > Following "Road to Reality" as the modern
> > treatise on mathematical physics, this new
> > book "Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the
> > New Physics of the Universe" outlays much
> > of the necessary complement of background
> > to give the modern reader in physics a
> > relevant perspective to issues in questions
> > in modern physics.
> >
> > I'd more highly recommend it but I'm only
> > on page 70.  Otherwise my taste lies with,
> > for example, Davies as one of the great
> > explicators (and of very sound physics),
> > Hawking is not poor, lately I read some
> > Bohr and it was very good.
> >
> > I'd be interested in your comments as you
> > know it or have read it.
> 
> Penrose is one of my fav. writers (except his speculation on the "ideal
> world" are hopelessly naive IMHO, people have been thinking about this
> stuff literally for milennia, unfortunately studying it is completely
> out of fashion for scientists these days - long story).
> 
> Glancing at the table of content: it looks very similar to his other
> books, what's the difference?
> 
> Another oddity: not a single mention of the quantum eraser according to
> the Amazon search).
> 
> --
> Jan


One mustn't forget...quantum theory is ..just a theory.

quantum eraser erasers quantum..

It isn't there because quantum theory is not there.

You cannot understand that which does not exist.

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Penrose's new book "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-10-25 20:20 -0700
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