A few days ago I found this really interesting book by Russell Standish called theory of nothing. The book talks about achieving a theory of everything but as he explains it’s a theory that can’t explain much. He is not refering to a theory of the vacumm or zero-point energy. He also talks about complexity and stuff related to artificial life. There is some math in the book but most of it is straight-forward and he also has an appendix explaining it. He does a good job in explaining hard subjects. He even goes into the definition of the derivative and the integral in case the people that read this blog don’t know what they are 
. You can get it either in amazon.com or as a free pdf file. Russell Standish is a computer scientist doing experiments on Tierra and on his own model EcoLab in parallel computers. There is also a free pdf file of the Complex Systems ‘98 conference organized by him.
