Volume 51, Number 8 · May 13, 2004
The World on a String
By Freeman Dyson
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
by Brian Greene
Knopf, 569 pp., $28.95
In the golden years of the Liberal Party in England, before the First World War, Herbert Asquith was the patrician prime minister and Winston Churchill was an obstreperous young politician. At question time in the House of Commons, Churchill frequently challenged Asquith with provocative statements and awkward questions. After one of these Churchillian assaults, Asquith lamented, 'I wish I knew as much about anything as that young man knows about everything.' Reading this eloquent book in which Brian Greene lays out before us his vision of the cosmos, I feel some sympathy for Asquith. Asquith expresses my reaction to the book precisely.
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