Comments on: Baby delivered this morning by UPS! http://betsydevine.com/blog/2008/07/30/baby-delivered-this-morning-by-ups/ Making trouble today for a better tomorrow... Mon, 05 Mar 2012 04:05:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: TA http://betsydevine.com/blog/2008/07/30/baby-delivered-this-morning-by-ups/comment-page-1/#comment-1306 TA Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:44:36 +0000 http://betsydevine.com/blog/2008/07/30/baby-delivered-this-morning-by-ups/#comment-1306 Not to disappoint, I will now climb out on my trusty limb and produce no less than one inference and one prediction. The inference, based on past work by the author and on the overview and short review snippets posted at the book's site, is that the book popularizes the view that gravity can be induced by relatively mundane, field-theoretic symmetry breaking. The prediction is that a certain Czech blogger will not be appreciative, especially after seeing the names of some of the quoted reviewers. Since Amazon seems to delete 1-star reviews, effective bare bottom is 2 stars; respect for the author and a need for differentiation between this book and certain others will lead him to rate it a 3. (Of course, if he reads this comment he might decide to give it 4 stars, just to spoil my fun. The rascal!) Not to disappoint, I will now climb out on my trusty limb and produce no less than one inference and one prediction.

The inference, based on past work by the author and on the overview and short review snippets posted at the book’s site, is that the book popularizes the view that gravity can be induced by relatively mundane, field-theoretic symmetry breaking.

The prediction is that a certain Czech blogger will not be appreciative, especially after seeing the names of some of the quoted reviewers. Since Amazon seems to delete 1-star reviews, effective bare bottom is 2 stars; respect for the author and a need for differentiation between this book and certain others will lead him to rate it a 3.

(Of course, if he reads this comment he might decide to give it 4 stars, just to spoil my fun. The rascal!)

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