Monday Book Nook: The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene

The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality – Brian Greene. With a smile I say that all quantum physicists are kabbalists, and that all kabbalists are quantum physicists. While that’s not exactly true, both do like to step into the great beyond and often do so by examining the minutia of the right-here. (And many of the ideas parallel).

All that said, though, one of the best things about Greene’s book, to me, is a little story he tells at the beginning about a game he and his father played as a child. When walking one or the other would describe the scene from the point of view of something IN the scene, e.g. a leaf, pigeon, tenth story window, or discarded French fry package; then, the other would have to discern what in the scene held that perspective. This is an excellent foray into learning new perspective, literally, and stepping into the other’s shoes. And that is certainly kabbalistic.