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Since you are studying Physics, may I introduce you to this little book, whcih will answer all your questions and more. When working with a subject, even one I know well, I like to keep two (sorts of) books on the subject. A very basic book that explains things, including the maths, but is not too big and encyclopaedic. A treatise type book that works out all the special cases, wrinkles and details for when I need to delve deeply at a particular part of the subject. Susskind has written 3 titles covering much of Physics using of the first type of book and this is the one you need. It contains the whys and wherefores of quantum calculations, including useful tables of results, for entanglement, density matrices and compares with classical analogues, discussing the difference between quantum and classical versions.

Dystopian and Utopian works of fiction typically rely on both satire *and* parody to achieve their aims. Aldous Huxley quite clearly explained in the interview that Brave New World began as a parody of Men as Gods by H.G. Wells. He didn’t specifically say that it was satirical as well, for the simple reason that he didn’t feel the need to explain something so blindingly obvious to two experienced literary critics. As you seem to be struggling with this topic, here are some notes: - Dystopia is from the Greek δυς Τόπος meaning a “bad place”. It’s an antonym of Utopia which was coined in 1516 by Sir Thomas More, and came from the Greek ού Τόπος meaning “not a (real) place", because More’s novel described an imaginary island society in the New World with near perfect qualities . - Thomas More’s Utopia (which was written in Latin not English) is cast in the form of an epistolary exchange between More and other scholars who discuss reports about the customs and lifestyle of this strange island nation somewhere in the new world - customs which incidentally include institutionalised slavery. The entire content of Utopia is perceived as being intrinsically satirical in intent by most literary critics e.g: - This satirical fictional tradition continues in works like Gullivers Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift set in the fictional land of Lilliput, and Erewhon (1872) by Samuel Butler which was written as a satire on Victorian society - and one of the first to explore ideas of artificial intelligence. (Do I need to explain that Erewhon is an anagram of ’Nowhere’ spelled backwards ?). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon - Modern dystopian fiction is said to start with:The Time Machine (1895) a novella by H.G Wells, a short story called The Machine Stops (1909) by E.M. Forster which predicts a type of internet, and continued with a trilogy of classic dystopian novels - Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley, 1984 (1949) by George Orwell, and Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury. Other dystopian novels such as A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Antony Burgess, and Blade Runner (1968 aka ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep’) by Philip K. Dick have of course continued to be written to this very day. You haven't made any valid points that I could address. You don't seem to be familiar with this book or the genre.

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A someone who suffers more than most from what you describe because I tend to write longer posts than most one liners, I fully sympathise. +1 Yes I have yet to find a proper answers and have posted pictures of what I see here. Nor can I tell how any of this is benefitting anyone, since the last thing I would ever do would be to buy something that pops up and interferes with something I am currently engaged in. And, of course, those with suitable ad blockers who thing everything in the garden is rosy so they will never see and therefore buy as a result of these adverts either. I would certainly hate loosing someone of your calibre over this.

Yes he did - in a manner of speaking. Aldous Huxley himself gave that exact attribution in the course of an interview with Raymond Fraser and George Wickes which was published in a journal called the Paris Review in the spring of 1960 under the title ‘Aldous Huxley, The Art of Fiction’. https://web.archive.org/web/20100922002704/http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4698/the-art-of-fiction-no-24-aldous-huxley Its quite an interesting Q/A style interview that quotes Huxley’s replies without any paraphrasing. Here is the section of interest (although the entire interview is well worth your time reading)-:

youre saying that its all bs despite video evidence and credible witnesses? i thought nerds were smarter than that "supernerd"

what makes them idiotic? just because you say they are?