Manfred Eigen

translators' noteIn Laws of the Game, the authors often illustrate a point by referring to games like chess or checkers or backgammon, which are familiar to English-speaking readers. Occasionally, however, they discuss games that are not well known in this country. In these few cases, we have...

_ LETTERS TO THE EDITORS More Black Hole Paradoxes I enjoyed "Black Holes and the Centrifugal Force Paradox," by Marek Artúr Abramowicz [SciENTinc American, March), very much but was left somewhat puzzled. As we all know, centrifugal force is a fictitious force that appears to exist when a...