Physicists—most often Einstein—as well as physics itself inhabit these poems.
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
by David Eagleman. Pantheon, 2009
A neuroscientist presents in novelistic vignettes a variety of possibilities for the world that comes after death.
Note: This article was originally published with the title, "Reviews".
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Add CommentYour invitation for readers to look at images of elephants from the book under review, Elephant Reflections, carries an invalid URL . So is the link in the page where a site search took me, when I tried to look for it... I expected better.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to this--Micha Hofri
I agree with the above (by Micha Hofri).
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisMichael Yuval