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  <date_added>Thu Jan 03 14:23:56 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[So Lee Smolin is like really fucking smart.  Here he tries to explain Newton, Liebniz, Einstein, relativity, grand unification, &amp;c &amp;c to the interested non-physicist and.... fails.  I really wanted to like this book.  Lots of brilliant people I know recommend it highly.  But it's a convoluted hyper-abstract snoozer, too philosophical for the scientist yet still too esoteric for the layman.  <br/><br/>This book reminds me of why, despite pseudo-deep 3am geek bull sessions freshman year of college about time travel and the speed of light and black holes, I never took physics again after high school.  Smolin sets out to write just for that kind of person, just for ME, but only irritates me into remembering why I turned from that path.]]></body>
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