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The Universe in a Nutshell
by Stephen William Hawking

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Author: Stephen William Hawking
Brand: Baker and Taylor
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-11-06
ISBN: 055380202X
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Bantam

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Book Review: "Curled Dimensions" or Just Mimicking the Usual Three?
Summary: 4 Stars

Sir:
"Curled Dimensions" or Just Mimicking the Usual Three?
The claims by Hawking (The World in a Nutshell) and Greene (The Elegant Universe) to be close to a theory of everything (TOE) are premature in two essential ways:
1.A true TOE would start with a definition of theory and proceed to a theory of knowledge or epistemology.
2.The idea that nature has 10 or more hidden spatial dimensions "all curled up" is just an artificial way to give their physically impossible one dimensional strings enough degrees of environmental freedom to mimic a real three dimensional object.
3.Wolfram's "New Kind of Science", along with Fredkin's attempt to model the world as a cellular automaton will not work either, for cellular automata can neither be programmed nor given a physical basis. There is neither computable software nor identifiable hardware.
4.I discuss all this in my forthcoming booklet "The World" (Core Books, Summer, 2004, drudin@radix.net). See also www.worldtheory.org.

INSTITUTE FOR AXIOMATIC KNOWLEDGE
AND SYSTEMATIC EDUCATION
Annapolis, MD USA
Donald O. Rudin, M.D., President.
Professor, Mathematical Epistemology

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