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		<title>Anathem</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you read cosmology books for fun, you&#8217;ll have plenty of fun reading Anathem, by Neil Stephenson. It also helps if you like wordplay, language, and philosophy. I liked this book so much I was actually a bit relieved that I didn&#8217;t fall in love with it, because a 900 page book could mean some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingeveryday.wordpress.com&blog=2980432&post=1436&subd=writingeveryday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Self-Aware Universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like Programming the Universe, I got one key idea from The Self-Aware Universe, by Amit Goswami: that the probabilistic realm of quantum potentia is the same thing as the unitive consciousness of mystic experience. Unlike the Dancing Wu-Li Masters, this book conveys a good introduction to both quantum mechanics and the unitive consciousness. I just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingeveryday.wordpress.com&blog=2980432&post=1767&subd=writingeveryday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GTFH: The universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most interesting parts of God: The Failed Hypothesis is not what the book has to say about god, but about science and morality (which I&#8217;ll save for a post next week.) In chapters four and five, the book tackles why there is something rather than nothing, and why our something is the way it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingeveryday.wordpress.com&blog=2980432&post=1539&subd=writingeveryday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God: The Failed Hypothesis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like messing around with God, or gods, or Cosmic Muffins, but that doesn&#8217;t mean I believe in any sort of god. So I was interested in seeing how God: The Failed Hypothesis, by Victor J. Stenger would apply the methods of science to the hypothesis that God exists. Like The Fabric of Reality, it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingeveryday.wordpress.com&blog=2980432&post=1416&subd=writingeveryday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Fabric of Reality &#8211; Part II: What I didn&#8217;t like</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 03:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned last week, The Fabric of Reality is a thought-provoking book, but sometimes it&#8217;s just provoking. The book spends too much time blasting away at theories that aren&#8217;t useful and misrepresenting theories that are commonly accepted, not enough time crossing over some of its logical leaps, and no time at all discussing valid [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingeveryday.wordpress.com&blog=2980432&post=1152&subd=writingeveryday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Fabric of Reality &#8211; Part I: The Good Stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 03:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in June, I wondered how long it would take me to read The Fabric of Reality, by David Deutsch. Well, it took just about a week. This is not a book to tackle at the end of the day. The book is so challenging, it&#8217;s physically tiring to read and think about and react [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingeveryday.wordpress.com&blog=2980432&post=1145&subd=writingeveryday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A quick note about The Big Rip</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 00:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s episode of Quirks &#38; Quarks ends with a discussion of The Big Rip, the driving idea behind &#8220;Last Contact.&#8221; And I&#8217;m trying to write an inchoate story about Mars, so I was also interested in their discussion of the Phoenix Lander, due to land on Mars next Sunday.
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		<title>Cosmic Jackpot</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 15:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good book you might wish you had read before tackling &#8220;The House Beyond Your Sky,&#8221; is Cosmic Jackpot. In clear, entertaining arguments, Paul Davies works his way through the various flavors of theories attempting to explain the &#8220;Goldilocks&#8221; problem. That is, there are a small set of critical constants that have to be within [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingeveryday.wordpress.com&blog=2980432&post=70&subd=writingeveryday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The House Beyond Your Sky</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some science fiction reads like popular science writing dressed up in story. &#8220;The House Beyond Your Sky,&#8221; by Benjamin Rosenbaum, is a story you really can&#8217;t understand unless you already know some science. The references to cosmology&#8211;like simulated universes and critical constants&#8211;go completely unexplained. And you know what? I like being treated as an adult.

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		<title>Our Cosmic Origins</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 15:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second cosmology book recommended in Spin is Our Cosmic Origins, by Armand Delsemme. A slender book, it gives a good summary of the origins of the Solar System, but skims over a lot of explanation. Understanding and accepting it is largely dependant on reading other books. Being a cometologist, he goes into fascinating detail [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingeveryday.wordpress.com&blog=2980432&post=95&subd=writingeveryday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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