New Age preachers and mystics of all kinds manage to distort recent
developments in physics and astronomy to fit their own ideas about the origin of
the Universe. Victor Stenger in The Unconscious Quantum (Prometheus Books,
$32.95, ISBN 1 57392 022 3) will have none of this and mounts a
formidable attack on such claims. Written in the plainest possible way for the
average reader, it still demands much concentration. It will, however, bring you
up-to-date on the latest discoveries.
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