From Eternity to Here: Book Club

As promised, we're going to have a book club to talk about From Eternity to Here. Roughly speaking, every Tuesday I'll post about another chapter, and we'll talk about it. Easy enough, right? (Chapters 4 and 5, about relativity, are pretty short and will be combined into one week.) For the most part I won't be summarizing each chapter -- because you'll all have read the book, so that would be boring. Instead, I want to give some behind-the-scenes insight about what was going through my mind when I put each chapter together -- a little exclusive for readers of the blog. Of course, in the comments I hope we can discuss the substance of the chapters in as much detail as we like. I'm going to try to participate actively in all the discussions, so I hope to answer questions when I can -- and certainly expect to learn ...