Reading the Mind of God

James S. Trefil. Anchor Books, $9.95 (232pp) ISBN 978-0-385-41566-8

Trefil studies universality as he hops from Newton's observation of a falling apple and Charles Lyell's estimate of the age of the earth to MIT physicist Alan Guth's bizarre speculations about constructing a universe in the lab out of a ``false vacuum.'' ``This is popular science writing at its best,'' reported PW. Illustrated. (Nov.)

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