An attempt is made to address a stylized question posed to Ernst Strauss by Albert Einstein regarding the amount of freedom present in the construction of our field theoretic universe.
Eric Weinstein earned his AB in English literature and philosophy from Duke University, his MFA from New York University, and his MS in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His poems have appeared in McSweeney's The Believer, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, and others.
His programming guide for children, Ruby Wizardry, is available from No Starch Press; his poetry chapbook, Vivisection, is available from New Michigan Press. He lives in Los Angeles.