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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=11583