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On 24/03/2021 22:53, billw wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans
ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Just 'finished'
this book by GReg Egan, Content: speculative fixed point
topology, speculative nuclear physics, multiple universes, etc.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans
ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">I estimate that I
skipped about 85% of the book - a first for me.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans
ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Probably more like
90%</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans
ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Hard? Nope -
adamantine. Way, way over my head. Characters aren't
interesting either. But I plugged away just to find out if I
could understand any of it. Maybe 5%.</div>
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Well, I can't say that I really understood the physics and maths in
it either, but I still rate it as one of my favourite books ever.
And the joke about the wormhole experiment really tickled me.<br>
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It's strange how people see things so differently. I would have
listed the content as: Life as an Upload, branching identity,
futuristic reproduction and upbringing, existential threat writ
large, elusive aliens, multiple universes, black holes, human
psychology, etc. And wormholes.<br>
<br>
Ben<br>
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Ben Zaiboc</pre>
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