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[CraigD]

Welcome to hypography, final.theory.chick! Please feel free to start an introduction thread telling us all a bit about yourself.

Originally Posted by final.theory.chick

stumbled across some info on a new book about final theory due to be released soon...anyone heard of Nature's Watchmaker by John Thompson?

Your post is the first I’ve heard of it, or its author. As it doesn’t appear to be in print yet, so I suspect not too many people have. From this bloggish semi-promotion, semi-review, I get the impression that some reviewers have read at least parts of the manuscript, but found from a quick web search no reviews by a recognizable scientist or science journalist, nor any academic or professional biography of the author. It’s publisher’s description page describes it (as such pages usually do) very positively.

If anybody has access to the manuscript or book, and can provide a synopsis, please do. As the above publisher’s description claims “it combines all the effects found in both the microscopic (atoms) and macroscopic (stars, black holes, galaxies) universes in one simply derived equation”.

I doubt Thompson’s ideas are related to those Mark McCutcheon’s promotes in his book “The Final Theory”, which this stupendously long thread discusses, and given how soundly McCutcheon and his claims have been discredited in this and other science forums and reviews, hope they’re not. If no one has any information connecting the two, I’ll move this and the preceeding post to a new thread.