[ExI] Blackford and Egan

[Amara Graps]

>  What do you really know about Egan?

Besides being a science fiction writer, he is a reputable
mathematical physicist -

for example
http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0264-9381/19/6/310
http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0264-9381/19/24/315
http://www.springerlink.com/content/j9364141185052j0/
http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/Cornall_Terry_420.pdf
http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/Cornall_Terry_328.pdf

and he comments on sci.physics.research
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=greg+egan&num=100&scoring=r&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_ugroup=sci.physics.research&as_usubject=&as_uauthors=&lr=lang_en&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=24&as_maxm=4&as_maxy=2008&safe=off

and on various blogs
http://cosmicvariance.com/2007/11/13/arxiv-find-universal-quantum-mechanics/#comment-304331

>Are his values/knowledge/intelligent/life experiences better than the
>rest of us?

I don't know them, but I would guess 'no', depending on how one defines
'better'. ;-)

Amara

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Amara Graps, PhD      www.amara.com
Research Scientist, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder, Colorado