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From: hsf@hlexa.UUCP (Henry Friedman)
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Subject: Re: SUPERFORCE by Davies?
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Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 13:48:21 EST
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The first name is Paul. SUPERFORCE is one of an entire series of
a reasonably sophisticated class of popularized books on the
"new physics."  His credentials are apparently above average, as
he is, I believe, a physics prof at Cambridge.

I highly recommend SUPERFORCE as a lucid summary of the various
unification theories, including super-symmetry.  It is also an
excellent tutorial for the laymen in the classification of elementary
particles. If you want to learn the difference between fermions and
bosons and between hadrons and leptons, this is the book.

Book of the Month Club, Science offers it a few dollars cheaper, and
it has been my experience that the Quality Paperback Book Club
fairly quickly publishes trade paperback editions of all of
Davies books for about $7, but I didn't want to wait to read this.

--Henry Friedman