A physics major recommended "The Elegent Universe" by Brian Greene (1999). Not an overly expensive book, but perhaps someone here is familiar?
I don't know the book, but I know the name from a 4-part PBS/Nova series on physics that was hosted by him.
He's sympathetic to the new atheism. So, as you would with any book, read with a eye discerning scientific evidences versus philosophical presuppositions snuck in as science.
I'm sat wondering how a supposedly professional organisation could create a web site with a user interface inferior to what I was expected to code when I was 14 years old taking an early course in computer science. Seriously, when it asks for my phone number and rejects "1112223333", requesting it in the format "xxx.xxx.xxxx" and then accepts "111.222.3333" I do have to wonder. It also rejected my name because I wrote it in proper case "Tango" and it wanted "TANGO". Seriously? Can a supposedly professional organisation really not perform a basic conversion to uppercase? As an associated question I'm wondering whether the Federal Health Insurance Marketplace is an experiment in whether it is how long it takes between replacing humans with trained monkeys and people noticing.
Actually I think that in most cases with governmental offices the trained monkeys would be able to do the work better and more efficiently. Plus they would work for bananas.
That would be typical. Spent some time there today. Some interesting discussions. I have a self-imposed limitation, however.
I was a moderator at Bible Forums for a while and how long the "coffee" lasts depends on how they put it in. They can make it permanent, IE. until they lift it, but they have do do it differently than just a normal coffee. Or at least that's the way it worked when I was on staff.
Waiting for dealership to replace oil cooler in my vehicle. A warranty item; they provided a rental. Forced to sit still for the duration. Cannot earn income. Switching to a lease program, however, soon. No more using my own vehicle. Pretty sure this need to drive is soon coming to an end, thank God. Perhaps as merely a supplemental thing in the future, if at all.
It's a long shot - possibility of returning, after all these years, to a sawmill in Montana as a machine operator. HaHa! That would be an unusual turn of events for sure.