Title: No Payoff
Review: I read this book when it first came out, and I just finished reading it a second time. With any difficult subject you keep tabs of the arguments as best you can, hoping that by the end the pieces fall into place for you. And even if they don't you still hope to find out how it can be expected to influence the subject it covers. Sadly, neither of these came to pass. The author's "time capsules" seem to describe snapshots of the universe in absolute time, but they include not just what we would call our actual universe but any possible configuration of the universe. We experience the most probable of these time capsules. But if time is an illusion what does it matter to us? What changes? What insight does it provide? The book may have been better off if it were written in a more technical manner for experts or with more analogies and descriptions for lay readers.
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