From: "BillK" > Try "Written on the Wind" by David D. Levine, August 2002 > or "Time" by Stephen Baxter, 1999 > or "Signal to Noise" by Eric S Nylund, 1999 THanks. Sci-fi poets look much smarter than sci-sci professionals, as usual. s. A physicist, working in that field, suggested the sci-fi book "Wheelers", by I. (Ian?) Stewart & J. Cohen, N.Y. 2001.