{"id":4356,"date":"2023-08-01T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T06:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=4356"},"modified":"2023-11-10T18:34:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T05:34:19","slug":"are-universes-thicker-than-blackberries-martin-gardner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2023\/08\/01\/are-universes-thicker-than-blackberries-martin-gardner\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries? &#8212; Martin Gardner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"714\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/blackberries-714x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/blackberries-714x1024.jpg 714w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/blackberries-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/blackberries-768x1101.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/blackberries-1071x1536.jpg 1071w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/blackberries-1428x2048.jpg 1428w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/blackberries-105x150.jpg 105w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/blackberries-1200x1721.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/blackberries-scaled.jpg 1785w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Martin Gardner is absolutely brilliant on puzzles and mathematical topics, but when he moves to other topics as he does in this collection, he writes as just a smart, opinionated and slightly old-fashioned commentator. The title essay is about the multiple-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. He thinks it\u2019s tosh, which I tend to agree with. But somehow these pieces do not read like balanced and insightful discussions; rather, they sound like slightly irascible kvetching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book would be OK to dip into occasionally, but having all these pieces in one volume is a bit overwhelming (and, at the same time, underwhelming). I did read the whole thing, but by the end I was hankering to pull out my copy of <em>Wheels, Life and Other Mathematical Amusements<\/em> \u2013 <strong>that\u2019s<\/strong> the Martin Gardner for me.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Gardner is absolutely brilliant on puzzles and mathematical topics, but when he moves to other topics as he does in this collection, he writes as just a smart, opinionated and slightly old-fashioned commentator. The title essay is about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2023\/08\/01\/are-universes-thicker-than-blackberries-martin-gardner\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,198,16],"class_list":["post-4356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-books","tag-martin-gardner","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4358,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions\/4358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}