From: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach)
Subject: New Hardcover Feynman Lectures
Date: 2000/04/01
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Finally, the collector's edition of a series of books you've always wanted to
own.  Beautiful leather binding.  Gold embossed foil lettering on the cover.
Acid-free paper.  Probably the most beautiful hardcover books you've ever
seen.

For the first time in print, we proudly present the unaltered, unexpurgated,
uncut, complete text of the Feynman Lectures on Cartoon Physics, in hardcover
form.  Feynman's quirky sense of humor is legendary among physicists and
non-physicists alike, but many people don't realize how brilliant his
analytical mind really was.

For years, people have laughed at cartoons, dismissing "cartoon physics" as an
unlikely, humorous, and inconsistent set of rules.  Feynman's brilliant
analysis showed how cartoon physics could be understood as a single
*consistent* set of rules!

Other physicists have tried to analyze cartoon physics; in Sokal's seminal
work, for instance, he explains the famous ability of cartoon characters to
run across a chasm, falling only if they look down:

	Since the mid-1980's evidence has been accumulating that this field,
	first conceptualized by developmental biologists, is in fact
	closely linked to the quantum gravitational field: (a) it pervades
	all space; (b) it interacts with all matter and energy, irrespective
	of whether or not that matter/energy is magnetically charged; and,
	most significantly, (c) it is what is known mathematically as a
	``symmetric second-rank tensor''.  All three properties are
	characteristic of gravity; and it was proven some years ago that
	the only self-consistent nonlinear theory of a symmetric second-rank
	tensor field is, at least at low energies, precisely Einstein's
	general relativity. Thus, if the evidence for (a), (b) and (c)
	holds up, we can infer that the morphogenetic field is the quantum
	counterpart of Einstein's gravitational field.

However, this impenetrable text is no credit to the field of physics, nor
does it reflect well on the editors that published the paper.  Sure, you
can read it, but why?  It's not fun, it's not exciting.

It's not cartooney.

Enter Feynman.  A brilliant understanding of physics, a rich sense of humor,
and far too much free time, together at last.

The Feynman Lectures on Cartoon Physics are available for a *VERY* limited
time - today only, in fact!  We recommend that you purchase the entire set.
Quantities are limited.  Some products may increase in value.

The FLoCP are being printed in the U.S. by the Acme Book Company.  Guaranteed
next-second delivery throughout the United States.

-s
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