The Time Traveler's Wife, Time's Arrow & Fabric of the Cosmos

I finished 3 time-related books recently. The Time Traveler's Wife was
definitely the best of them. I mean, as long as you're also an
incurable romantic struggling in vain with the apparent conflict of
free will and belief in fate and destiny. Seriously, read this book.
Maybe not in public if you mind people seeing you cry (it's not a
question of if, but when), but definitely get to it.

The other two were ok. One was called Time's Arrow and had this guy
who was experiencing time backwards stuck in this other guy's head. It
was weird at first, the guy is a doctor so to the backwards traveling
dude had this bad impression of him at first, because the doctor kept
taking these healthy people and slowly, piece by piece, fucking them
up, until eventually in one magnificent healing event like a mugging
or raping or something they would get healthy again. Later on though
everything starts making sense to the backwards traveler, because it
turns out the doctor was a nazi, and by withdrawing just one syringe
of fluid, or gas, from the body of his patients, he could bring them
back to life and send them on their way. So yeah. Don't all run out to
read it at once.

The last one was pop science, kinda like A Brief History Of Time,
called Fabric of the Cosmos. The author goes into more detail on
relativity which was exciting, but then later on he wanders off into
string theory and like nine million different theories that can't be
proven by experiment any time soon. One of the exciting ones though
was if gravity is leaking into other dimensions we might be able to
detect it, and the other dimensions might be much bigger than we
thought, like as big as a 10th of a millimeter, which is huge! But
nobody has found any leakage yet. I hope there is a leakage and we can
communicate with aliens in the other dimensions by fucking with
gravity in systematic ways and having them send gravity signals back.
That would be sweet. I'll have to ask Jaffar though if he thinks
there's any chance that could ever happen.

Vanessa, I will probably not watch the Twilight movie with you, but my
little sister might, she blogged about it a little while back.

--k2