Comments on: Chrono-Synclastic Infundibulum

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:45:32 +0000

I was expecting the comments here to make me hate physics. They’ve managed to make me hate the English language instead. Who the hell came up with this “future perfect tense” idea? He probably didn’t know much about statistics, or physics, or good manners. Can’t we just call it something else, for the love of Relativity?

*Ahem.* So, when will the book be available?

By: Pope Maledict XVI

Pope Maledict XVI — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:18:10 +0000

Fuckin’ well done, chemicalscum! You fuckin’ got it! Fuck!

By: chemicalscum

chemicalscum — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:55:40 +0000

@Pope Maledict XVI Says:

“I thought it was an allusion to “The Big Space Fuck”, by the same author.”

Sirens of Titan (1959)
The Big Space Fuck (1972)

Fuck that “Sirens of Titan” came first, or maybe last?

By: James

James — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:52:57 +0000

For a similar palindromic piece, see the Crab Canon in Douglas Hofstadter’s Goedel, Escher, Bach. It was one of my favorite things I read when I was a boy.

You can read it here:

http://www.evl.uic.edu/swami/crabcanon

By: Dileep

Dileep — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:32:20 +0000

Michael: “Well, it has to be an “imperfect” repetition, because after the midpoint of the review the book will have been published and then I wasn’t able to talk about it in the future perfect tense any longer.”

Me: “Or its a jab at spontaneously Broken Symmetries ”

By: Matt McIrvin

Matt McIrvin — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:39:37 +0000

Wow, John Emerson really doesn’t like physicists. Didn’t see that one coming.

By: Pope Maledict XVI

Pope Maledict XVI — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:44:06 +0000

Tom Fishman said: “Love the Sirens reference,”

I thought it was an allusion to “The Big Space Fuck”, by the same author.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:24:42 +0000

haha very clever

By: Michael Bérubé

Michael Bérubé — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:10:07 +0000

It took me a second to realize that it starts repeating itself backwards, albeit imperfectly, about half-way through

Well, it has to be an “imperfect” repetition, because after the midpoint of the review the book will have been published and then I wasn’t able to talk about it in the future perfect tense any longer.

By: Elliot Tarabour

Elliot Tarabour — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:25:16 +0000

I wonder if Julian Barbour will write a review saying Sean’s book doesn’t exist.

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