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Yeah, this is an expensive book! I actually got it as a birthday present; imagine what my parents must think :) If there's anything you'd like to know about the book, let me know.

I just finished the preface after receiving my copy from Cambridge Press earlier today. Has anyone else on here received their copy yet? I wanted to bump this topic before I start the book proper to bring it back into the public eye, and because I'll probably get lost in its pages ;) I hope...

Isn't it actually space-time itself that's expanding? So things aren't actually moving away from each other, but the space between them is getting bigger.

Thank you for the kind words. No reply yet, but then it's the holidays so we should probably give it some time. Classes start again in September, but hopefully I'll have received a reply by then.

Sorry about the delay guys, here's the e-mail I just sent to Gerard 't Hooft: (Dutch) "Nu bekend is dat dit boek (Approaches to Quantum Gravity) in maart volgend jaar uit komt en de definitieve index online beschikbaar is, loopt op Physics Forums een discussie over de bijdragen van de...

This may be an odd suggestion, but do you suppose we could ask him? (Gerard 't Hooft) From his website he seems approachable enough. (I also happen to study at Utrecht University, though my major is CS, not Physics) This book seems very exciting :)

Does the publisher ship to where you live?

Garrett, Did you see the documents he posted containing this assignment? Lawrence, Wow, the technicality of this discussion just went up a few degrees. I would like to inquire about a detail: is =/= the same as !=, or put in words, the 'not equal to' operator?

I believe he means 'go with the assumption' that they are correct and work backwards from there to find a configuration in agreement with scientific observations/the standard model. (but being a layman, I could be wrong or might not have phrased that correctly)

Hello Jan, I've been lurking in this topic for a while now and am sorry to pollute it with an off-topic post, but every time you mention your "Joppe conjecture" it makes me smile, as the only Joppe I know is my taijiquan teacher :) So I was wondering, how did you arrive at the name? PS: good...