X-Message-Number: 11583
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 00:11:28 -0700
From: Mike Perry <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #11570 - #11575

I thank Damien Broderick (#11574) for the reference on string/membrane
theory (*The Elegant Universe* by Brian Greene). As it happens, I recently
acquired it; it sits quietly on a bookshelf, along with other recent
acquisitions that I haven't been able to read yet (there are so many good
books coming out these days).

On the subject of Deutsch's level of expertise, which Thomas Donaldson seems
inclined to question (#11570), I think it is probably considerable. Quoting
from the dust jacket of *The Fabric of Reality*: "Born in Haifa, Israel,
David Deutsch was educated at Cambridge University and Oxford University. He
is a member of the Quantum Computation and Cryptography Research Group at
the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University. His papers on quantum
computation laid the foundations for that field, and he is an authority on
the theory of parallel universes."

Mike Perry

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