That reminds me of my father dutifully sitting down and reading his way diligently through my husband's dissertation (on Futurity in Old English) after having been presented with a bound copy. My father taught computers... but he was always interested in languages, and did know some Latin. Still, it must have been even more of a mystery to him than it was to me, and even though I lived through the writing of the thing, I still don't understand most of it! (I suppose it doesn't help that I don't know Old English...)
Dear sister, As far as I know, there's only one person in the whole world who's reading (in the sense of attempting to understand, rather than for the sake of love or laughter) that paper and that's Jose Almeida over in Portugal. The basic difficulty with reading it is that it uses "complexified Geometric Algebra" and an extension of relativity having to do with proper time.
Few people know Clifford Algebra theory, and Geometric Algebra is a somewhat esoteric variety of that. As far as I know, the only person working in complexified geometric algebra, other than myself, is Dr. Almeida.
By some strange coincidence, Dr. Almeida has also written papers using a proper time relativity extension. It was this coincidence that put the fire under me to get this paper completed.
For comparison, here's his two papers that got me fired up:
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/math.GM/0307165
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0104029
Carl
Heehee--I love that, because I'll be doing that exact thing to my family in the (hopefully) near future. "Here! Look at some graphs, musicians and literary-types!"
It's all out of love, I promise.
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