On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 01:37:25PM +1200, LizR wrote: > Well, I'm pretty sure I've read "Timeless Reality",.at least... > > OK, I guess I have to be blunt here - without wishing to sound immodest or > to cast doubts on Dr Stenger's erudition, will I learn anything new, i.e. > something that hasn't already been discussed at length on this list? :-) >
Comprehensible Cosmos is the only one of his books I've read. I'm not that interested in atheist polemicals, which most of his books are. But I can definitely vouch for CC, and no, it's ideas have not been discussed much on this list. If I were to summarise CC's main argument, it is to say that pretty much all of classical physics (including electromagnetism, relativity, or at least special relativity) can be derived from symmetry principle, or which the most famous is Noether's theorem regarding conservation of energy. There is also a nice derivation of why i hbar d/dx is the momentum operator in QM, so its not all about classical physics either. I refer to that result specifically in ToN. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
