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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (180666)	1/29/2012 9:49:34 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 544091

I'm glad you like that one. That one is already approved in our district- as we used to have a Sci fi/fantasy lit class. So we have class sets of Childhood's end, Canticle for Lebowitz, 1984, Brave New World, The Illustrated Man, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and a few other scie fi/fantasy novels.

To: T L Comiskey who wrote (180666)	1/29/2012 12:47:58 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 544091

Wish they had made a movie, but I will order the book today. A book everyone should have on their bookshelf, IMO, is "Nothingness" by Henning Genz a German theoretical physicist. The book is about vacuums, particle physics and the philosophy of all of that edge of knowledge stuff. I hve been chewing on ht ebook for a decade, but it is such complicated stuff I can only manage to get a bite here and bite there. But he does make it interesting. One just needs to take baby steps-lol. He is a great writer and explains stuff well for the layman. He also knows his history cold including going all the way back the earliest ancient Greeks like Thales. He also points out how many really super sophisticated concepts the ancient had figured out: e.g. Aristotle said: "The void as such, is unable to differentiate". Imagine! 350 BC. How many people walking around today would even think of that, let alone understand it? Newton reiterated it. Or Thales, the earliest known natural philosopher inquiring about the concept of nothing, the opposite of something. Right now I am trying to understand the Higgs field that the new collider in Europe is looking for. Higgs boson. And he is doing his best to explain it to me so I can understand it, but he has his work cut out for him-lol.