Those of you who enjoy reading books on weird cosmological issues by the likes of Stephen Hawking and Brian Greene will probably enjoy the forthcoming From Eternity to Here: The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time by Sean Carroll. Michael Bérubé has a review up at Crooked Timber which is full of lovely stuff like:
Carroll’s larger idea is that ours is one of many not-merely-possible but actually existing universes, that the Big Bang is not the origin of them all, and that in some of them, time may run backwards, forwards, sideways, or not at all.
The post itself appears to have fallen through an event horizon and been partially cloned as a result, but there’s plenty in there to whet the appetite. And if that isn’t enough to get you to buy the book I should add that Mr. Carroll is better known as the “spousal unit” of the very wonderful Jennifer Ouellette so he comes pre-approved, so to speak.
I think Berube deliberately reversed “time” in his “pre-review” — i.e., the review ran both forwards and backwards. These scholarly types are too clever for their own good. 🙂
You reckon? I could have sworn that he had fallen down a rabbit hole and consumed rather too many of the pills that he found there. 🙂