"Wolfram dismisses recent work in quantum gravity which points to related ideas, because it doesn't go far enough and subsume quantum mechanics itself under the banner of universality. This is a pattern repeated throughout the book: Wolfram credits other scientists begrudgingly, and even those who laid the foundations for his own work are chided for missing the point. Sometimes a touch of egotism can bring a science book to life, but as a poet of braggadocio Wolfram is closer to Mike Tyson than Muhammad Ali."
4 out of 5
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