Thanks. It sounds like it could well be worthwhile. I'll see if my book budget will stretch...
On 23 May 2014 14:47, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 01:37:25PM +1200, LizR wrote: > > Well, I'm pretty sure I've read "Timeless Reality",.at least... > > > > OK, I guess I have to be blunt here - without wishing to sound immodest > or > > to cast doubts on Dr Stenger's erudition, will I learn anything new, i.e. > > something that hasn't already been discussed at length on this list? :-) > > > > Comprehensible Cosmos is the only one of his books I've read. I'm not > that interested in atheist polemicals, which most of his books > are. But I can definitely vouch for CC, and no, it's ideas have not > been discussed much on this list. > > If I were to summarise CC's main argument, it is to say that pretty > much all of classical physics (including electromagnetism, relativity, > or at least special relativity) can be derived from symmetry > principle, or which the most famous is Noether's theorem regarding > conservation of energy. > > There is also a nice derivation of why i hbar d/dx is the momentum > operator in QM, so its not all about classical physics either. I refer > to that result specifically in ToN. > > Cheers > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret > (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
