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Title: Forget It
Review: If Deutsch is lucky the scientific (and publishing) establishments will soon forget this book. Deutsch is an important and original quantum physicist - perhaps someday he'll win a Nobel prize for his work on quantum computation. Unfortuneately he's a horrible writer. He's an arrogant know-it-all with no time to explain his theories or to explain why he dismisses others' theories. For instance, he uses Popper's analysis of scientific justification to dismiss certain (absurd) theories and then doesn't justify his own. His theory of the multiverse, as presented here, would have to be dismissed on the same grounds. Did he have a page limit and have to cut the reasoning piece, or was he simply too impatient to write a good book? In any case, if you want to read a science book, read Feynman or Penrose or pretty much anyone else. The only thing worth reading in this book is the list of other books to read, at the end.
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