After reading Luminous, I was pleased when Janos plonked Axiomatic on my desk. I wasn't disappointed. Perhaps Axiomatic is the superior collection? Written in 1995, it's way ahead of its time. The sort of things Egan writes about, free will, the neurological basis for decision making, parallel universes, brain and …

Glad he was a hero for you. I liked his work too, and cant believe he is gone. I loved to read his books and always looked forward to the next one. I grew up reading him.....

NO NO NO NO NO!!! What I said was......

.....if time is infinitely divisible, then you never reach the end point (1 minute), so the issues never arises. ......

I wish I could phrase that answer in a more techy way (like Katherine did), but, well I can't!

As to if …

John Barrow introduced me to Thompson's Lamp in his The Infinite Book, and I've been asking everyone I meet about it.

Katherine said, 'It's a divergent infinite series, so the question doesn't have an answer'. I was impressed!

My brother and Jonathan both came up with practical objections, my brother …

Thanks Pascal, I've updated all the titles!

I support the Campaign for free BIOS and intend to buy AMD CPUs over Intel. Even though I don't buy computers very often, I'm sure I'll have Intel quaking in their sockets.

I believe that your title should be : Le citoyen blogueur
With a 'u' letter after the 'g'.

I've just listened to David King saying that we should switch our research funding away from fundamental research and direct it towards the practical problems we face, such as climate change, population growth and AIDS in poor countries.

I instinctively disagree with this. Thinking further, there are two reasons for …

At my aunt's house during Christmas 2000, not long after my mum died, I started to read l'Etranger. I never finished it, and I keep meaning to come back to it. It was different from anything I had read before, and I found that it both shocked and appealed to …

My mum always used to read Joanna Trollope. They were always lying about the house. I remember reading The Rector's Wife. Also, during my mum's illness I read another one whose title I've forgotten (was it Other People's Children?).

So, for holiday reading in France I thought JT should be …