Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries? by Martin Gardner, W. W. Norton, $25.95, ISBN 0393057429 Reviewed by Hazel Muir
CELEBRATED writer Martin Gardner must be losing count – after all he has written more than seventy books to date. His latest is a compilation of articles he penned for The Skeptical Inquirer, deftly debunking everything from bogus medicinal remedies to psychic charlatans.
Gardner grapples with the notion of whether or not there are zillions of other universes, giving cosmologists a rap on the knuckles for their wilder speculations, and whether time can run backwards. One chapter rips apart absurd claims about Freudian…
