I think this book tears a whole in some of the speculative nonsense that passes for "science" nowadays...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Singular-Universe-Reality-Time/dp/1107074061
http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academi...-and-reality-time-proposal-natural-philosophy
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Singular-Universe-Reality-Time/dp/1107074061
http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academi...-and-reality-time-proposal-natural-philosophy