i'm gonna like this book....

[dj_subversive]

"Nevertheless, it is curious that this tendency of fundamental physics to move towards questions traditionally of interest to philosophers and theologians has developed in parallel with an increased lack of interest amongst physicists in the philosophical questions raised by these developments. To most scientists 'philosophical questions' has become a handy label to apply to any collection of vague or apparently unanswerable questions which only become worthy of serious consideration when they become scientific. Perhaps this is a legacy of scientist' perception of progress in philosophical inquiry as being tantamount to the art of showing that more and more of the past 'problems' of philosophy are illusory semantic confusions. It is our hope that some of the unusual ways in which Nature has been found to operate may revitalize the consideration of the wider implications of scientific problems."

--John D. Barrow, The World Within the World: A Journey to the Edge of Space and Time

and that's just in the prologue. from what i've gathered, this book is about the 'laws of Nature' and why they're mathematical, do they even exist or are they just humanity's way of putting a label to something in order to predict and control its behavior... something like that. i'm not even through the prologue.

joy! intelligent literature!