Starting something you couldn't finishFinnbar says: I used to know a guy who tattooed LOVE across his left knuckles, but didn't tattoo HATE on the other knuckles because he was right-handed and realised he couldn't finish. Ever run out of skills or inspiration halfway through a job?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 13:32)
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The Elegant UniverseI like to think of myself as an educated type - I'm a post-grad, got a Mechanical Engineering degree, teach Maths, well read on Philosophy and History...
But this book, about two-thirds of the way through, is a complete nailed-on BASTARD of a read.
(, Sat 26 Jun 2010, 15:36, 3 replies)
Oh god. I absolutely loved it.But I'm an absolute sucker for popular science (if I'm in a non-fiction mood).
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Sat 26 Jun 2010, 16:02,
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Is it anything like the pbs series?: www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html
If so I might have to go and hunt for a copy of this book.
(, Sat 26 Jun 2010, 17:28, closed)
The spouse loves that bookAnything to do with physics, especially string theory, and he's on it like a cat on a tin of fish. We actually have Physics Wednesdays at the house now, where he excitedly views various shows about physics and related subjects while trying to explain them to me. It isn't my branch of science (you've gone farther than I have with that book!), but he tells me I ask very interesting questions just the same. I worry that 'very interesting' is a nice way of saying 'ridiculously stupid'.
(, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 0:56, closed)
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