About Time.

PAUL DAVIES, author of the acclaimed The Mind of God and recent winner of the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, has written a new book. For sci-fi buffs and Star Trek aficionados, About Time may be another dream come true. Chock full of tachyons, black holes, EPR paradoxes, and Heisenberg uncertainties, the book is a fantastic collage of twentieth-century science. Though it masquerades as a treatise on time, it is really about the solved and unsolved problems in relativistic physics. Unfortunately, it is too shallow and confusing to serve as a primer on modern scientific ideas. And for those who are scientifically up-to-date, About Time is utterly redundant. The scientific paradoxes are poorly explained; the down-to-earth quotes from the likes of Einstein and Lewis Carroll are audaciously recycled; and the humorous anecdotes about famous scientists are so old, they're beginning to sound like bed-time stories.