A Bible and Too Many Emphases

[planeterry]

A couple of weeks ago I totally scored at the excellent second-hand book stall at our on-campus Market Day.  Roger Penrose's The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe (hardcover, excellent condition, marked at only $18 but the cool stallholder - who looks like a white-haired and happy Robinson Crusoe - appreciates a repeat

Comments

[exp_err]

It's very cool that you can get so excited about a maths text :)

[planeterry]

I may be confusing excitement with fear and adrenaline...

[exp_err]

I'm impressed and kind of jealous anyway.

[planeterry]

Well any excitement is because it's leading up to physics I think, not for the math itself ;-) There've already been cross-references to fermion-boson spin (chapter 23) from the complex number part. Hopefully the next 16 chapters in between will help it make sense eventually :-\

[calla_s]

Update when you have understood the universe, and fill us all in in blogspeak.

Yay learning!