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The Never-Ending Story a Guide to the Biggest Idea in the Universe: Infinity books and arts The never-ending story A guide to the biggest idea in the Universe: infinity. The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless by John D. Barrow Jonathan Cape: 2005. 328 pp. £17.99. To be TRICK SYDER IMAGES published in the US by Pantheon Books ($26). PA Simon Singh John Barrow is a wide-ranging author. A few years ago he wrote The Book of Nothing (Jonathan Cape, 2000), an exploration of zero, and now he has published The Infinite Book.Again he tackles a subject that has been previously explored by other popular- izers of science, but again he brings his charm and wit to bear to provide an account that is highly engaging and enriched with numerous literary references and dozens of illustrations and photographs. The opening chapters introduce readers to the concept of infinity through the eyes of the various philosophers who tackled the subject through the centuries.Their conflict- ing views about the nature and existence of infinity are slightly baffling,but the situation is rescued by the nineteenth-century math- ematicians who were able to make sense of the infinite realm. What emerges is a series of staggeringly brilliant and beautiful ideas, whose logic and power seem to defy com- Seeing the big picture: the patterns in Islamic tile designs can be repeated indefinitely. mon sense. For example, are all infinities equal? infinity equals infinity,and hence the number context of the Universe and the infinitely There are an infinite number of numbers of even numbers is equal to the number of small with respect to particle physics.Barrow and an infinite number of even numbers,but all numbers. also ventures even further afield, touching is the former infinity double the size of the Barrow explains other arguments that on theological issues and examining eternity latter,or does infinity have hidden subtleties? show that the number of whole numbers is and the notion of elixirs for immortality. The Infinite Hotel is the classic device for equal to the number of fractions,but that the Occasionally the material feels familiar, addressing this question. Attributed to the number of decimals is larger and represents but Barrow is generally able to introduce German mathematician David Hilbert, the a different scale of infinity. He also tells novel twists and turns,and presents standard Infinite Hotel is a highly successful enter- the tragic story of Georg Cantor, a German material in refreshing ways.For example,it is prise and its infinite number of rooms are mathematician who developed many of well known that the density at the centre of a fully booked. The situation seems bleak the fundamental ideas relating to infinity. black hole is supposed to be infinite, but few when a new guest turns up at reception, but Cantor was heavily criticized by the ‘finitists’, people realize that the average density of a the resourceful hotelier, comes up with a such as the influential Leopold Kronecker, large black hole, such as the one at the centre solution. He asks everybody to move up to who successfully vetoed Cantor’s applica- of a galaxy, could be less than the density of the next room — the occupant of room 1 tions for senior academic posts and blocked air. This is because the Schwarzschild radius moves to room 2, the occupant of room 2 the publication of his papers. of a giant black hole, which defines the point moves to room 3, and so on. This means that This constant persecution led to a series of no return,is so vast. everybody still has a room,but room 1 is now of nervous breakdowns and spells of severe Familiar characters, such as Hilbert, are empty and is available for the new guest. depression for Cantor,who gradually moved also fleshed out in new ways. We learn that This merely shows that infinity plus one away from mathematics and spent increas- one of Hilbert’s students committed suicide equals infinity. But what if an infinite num- ing amounts of time with philosophers and when he failed to solve a particular mathe- ber of new guests arrive at reception? The theologians. Eventually Cantor did receive matical problem. Hilbert was asked to speak hotelier asks the current guests to move to some acclaim from mathematicians around at the funeral, so he stood at the graveside the room with the number that is double Europe, but in his German homeland he was and matter-of-factly explained that the their current room — the occupant of room largely ignored. In 1908 he complained that problem was not particularly difficult and 1 moves to room 2, the occupant of room 2 his German colleagues “do not seem to know that the young man had merely failed to look moves to room 4, and so on. This means that me, even though I have lived and worked at it in the right way. everybody still has a room, but all the among them for 52 years”. Even an old chestnut like the Infinite odd-numbered rooms are now empty and Some chapters move beyond mathemat- Hotel feels fresh. This results in an index available for the new guests. So infinity plus ics and deal with the infinitely large in the that lists Fawlty Towers next to Fermat’s last NATURE | VOL 434 | 24 MARCH 2005 | www.nature.com/nature 437 © 2005 Nature Publishing Group books and arts theorem — surely the only time that these two items have been neighbours in the same book — and this serves to indicate the book’s quirkiness. ■ Simon Singh is the author of Big Bang (Fourth Estate, 2004), a history of cosmology. Wine with a deep flavour The Winemaker’s Dance: Exploring Terroir in the Napa Valley by Jonathan Swinchatt & David G. Howell University of California Press. 2004. 243 pp. $35.95, £22.95 George W. Moore I’m getting something earthy: differences in bedrock can affect both soil colour and a wine’s flavour. The taste of a wine depends on more than the graves(gravel mounds,again interbedded one wine to be particularly offensive, whereas just the variety of the grape from which it is with silt) formed by streams during ice-age another said of it: “I’d like to have a bowl of made. Winemakers and wine connoisseurs low stands of the estuary. that beside my bed,just to smell.” are concerned with terroir (pronounced In an effort to link the taste of wine to the This variation in personal preference is in ‘tair-wahr’), which refers to everything else subsoil geology,the authors studied Diamond marked contrast to the ‘expert’ opinion of that controls the flavour of wine: climate, Creek Vineyards,where the vines are planted wine-ranking services, which tend to favour subsoil and even the manipulations done in on upland slopes at the north end of Napa blockbuster wines that are extremely intense, the winery. Valley.The 8-hectare property is cut through particularly on first tasting. This has led to Many winemakers believe that the taste by a network of faults that juxtaposes three winemakers letting their grapes hang as of wine comes from the soil that supports the dissimilar geologic blocks. During vineyard long as possible on the vines, and extending vines.But the soil is only about a metre thick, development, the owner recognized three the time that the wines macerate on the grape whereas the roots of the vines extend down strongly contrasting soil colours, and used skins. Swinchatt and Howell deplore the about 10 metres or more. The soil is in them to divide the property into three homogenization that this is causing to the equilibrium with the local climate: its clay vineyards. These were planted in 1968 with taste of the world’s wines. They recommend and organic components smooth out the Cabernet Sauvignon cuttings from two that consumers ignore the wine-ranking delivery of water to the plants, and cation- first-growth vineyards at Bordeaux. services,seek out diversity,and savour it. ■ exchange processes supply major nutrients. Throughout its history, Diamond Creek George W. Moore is in the Department of But the minor compounds that control the has had three vineyard-designated bottlings. Geosciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, taste come from the much more voluminous Similar winemaking practices are used for Oregon 97331, USA. subsoil. The bedrock slowly weathers under each but the wines consistently taste differ- the action of water, carbon dioxide and ent.Wine from Red Rock Terrace (which has organic acids. This process delivers a contin- a basaltic lava subsoil) has velvety tannins uous flux of subsoil-dependent compounds with rich cherry and blackcurrant flavours; to the vines, and is a key component of the that from Volcanic Hill (volcanic-ash-bear- The quantum local terroir.In The Winemaker’s Dance, ing sandstone) has tannins that are youthfully geologists Jonathan Swinchatt and David firm but long-lived with berry and smoky Universe Howell evaluate every aspect of the terroir of flavours; and wine from Gravelly Meadow Science and Ultimate Reality: a small but well known winemaking region (pebbly stream sediment) has firm tannins Quantum Theory, Cosmology and place their findings in a global context. with herb,blackberry and earthy flavours. and Complexity The Napa Valley, northeast of San Fran- Two major factors affect the subtleties of edited by John D. Barrow, Paul C. W. Davies cisco, is in many ways similar to the famous wine taste. The first is the ‘character’ of the & Charles L. Harper, Jr Bordeaux region of France. They are at wine — the grape variety plus all the ele- Cambridge University Press: 2004.
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