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Hi,

For a brief intro or summary of Barbour's notions at a rather superficial, 
popular level, there's an article in the December 2000 issue of Discover 
magazine. Undoubtedly this is a gentler and cheaper introduction than the 
book, so it might be worth reading first.

However, I don't see how such wildly counterintuitive concepts (though 
possibly more correct than today's theories of the nature of th