Agog

In a review of a book by Brian Greene ("The Hidden Reality"), the reviewer quotes this wonderful Times headline from 1919, when physical evidence of relativity first was observed by astronomers: "Lights All Askew in the Heavens, Men of Science More or Less Agog." Being more or less agog much of the time myself, I took to this. It also of course nicely echoes John Donne's poem about the Kepler/Copernicus/Newton universe: "Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone."

I know that readers of this blog must be very careful in handling books with a title like "The Hidden Reality," but this one does look like a great read -- and I am a believer, i.e. having faith beyond uinderstanding, in multiple universes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/books/27book.html?ref=books
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Published on February 02, 2011 01:50
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