A Preference for Penrose

[Martin]

steven hawking is full of crap.

 

personally I prefer penrose.

 

yes

[Martin]

Here's a review of Penrose new book

from the Statesman website---it has a Times byline:

 

http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=24&theme=&usrsess=1&id=50300

 

Physics blogger Peter Woit also picked up on reactions to Penrose book

(certain theorists are a bit uncomfortable with it)

 

"Beauty, Fashion, and Emperors"

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/blog/archives/000064.html

 

Another review, from last Sunday's "Scotsman"

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=849142004

[Martin]

Penrose book is now #14 on Amazon UK best seller list

 

(#10 is Michael Moore "Dude give me back my country!")

 

Penrose is up there, pretty amazing for a book with a lot of

technical substance to it. It is not all

catchy metaphors, impressionistic language and hype

(not just your Greeney-type fluff)

but has some textbook-grade guts. so why is it selling like this?

[Martin]

I looked at the Amazon.uk best-sellers list an hour or so ago

and Penrose was up to #4

 

the only thing selling better was two diet books and

the Da Vinci Code

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

It seems to me nobody cares about this thread.