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To: Gauguin who wrote (30106)	6/26/1999 4:22:00 PM
From: nihil	Respond to of 71178

Check out Amazon.com. Search on superstrings.

To: Gauguin who wrote (30106)	6/26/1999 4:42:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Paul, you not only forgot the title of the book, but you also forgot to "drop" the name of your friend! <g> Hmmm, are you posing us some sort of Zen koan here? It is interesting how frequently physicists write books to illustrate the connection between "new" scientific views of the universe and "old" religio-philosophical ones (usually Eastern). Remember, for example, those two best-sellers: The Dancing Wu-Li Masters and The Tao of Physics? If I recall correctly, those two books extolled the "randomness" of quantum theory, as being in accordance with the insights of Eastern mysticism. Your friend may perhaps be arguing that this "randomness" is an illusion, generated by our inability to perceive the extra dimensions called for in Superstring Theory -- and again, in accordance with the insights of Eastern mysticism.... As you said, ain't life a gas? Joan