The Vulcan Hunter

Download or read book The Vulcan Hunter written by E. G. Gardner and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you had the key to the beginning and the end of the world as you knew it, what would you do with it? Would you open a door to know the truth or would you pray to have that knowledge stripped from your mind? That's the premise of the novel Dr. Peter Cashman has just finished reading. He thought it was a pretty good story, so he shares it with his father, a seismologist. His father agrees that it's an intriguing read. He also thinks it may not be a work of fiction. The earth is slowly being torn apart as Peter and his team race to find the author. Peter's dedication to the task hinges on a perilous premise surely some people can be saved from obliteration; otherwise, why was the story even written? In order to succeed, he must believe he will succeed. Peter's father sends him on a quest to save as many as possible, while involving as few as possible. For Peter, the hardest part of accepting his father's mission is finding the faith to believe the story is true. Finally a believer, he must now recruit other specialists to join him, without the benefit of knowing the full scope or goal of the project. In order to save what remains of humanity, they must find the answers soon and to do that, they must find the author. The clock is ticking.

Download or read book The Hunt for Vulcan written by Thomas Levenson and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The captivating, all-but-forgotten story of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and the search for a planet that never existed For more than fifty years, the world’s top scientists searched for the “missing” planet Vulcan, whose existence was mandated by Isaac Newton’s theories of gravity. Countless hours were spent on the hunt for the elusive orb, and some of the era’s most skilled astronomers even claimed to have found it. There was just one problem: It was never there. In The Hunt for Vulcan, Thomas Levenson follows the visionary scientists who inhabit the story of the phantom planet, starting with Isaac Newton, who in 1687 provided an explanation for all matter in motion throughout the universe, leading to Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier, who almost two centuries later built on Newton’s theories and discovered Neptune, becoming the most famous scientist in the world. Le Verrier attempted to surpass that triumph by predicting the existence of yet another planet in our solar system, Vulcan. It took Albert Einstein to discern that the mystery of the missing planet was a problem not of measurements or math but of Newton’s theory of gravity itself. Einstein’s general theory of relativity proved that Vulcan did not and could not exist, and that the search for it had merely been a quirk of operating under the wrong set of assumptions about the universe. Levenson tells the previously untold tale of how the “discovery” of Vulcan in the nineteenth century set the stage for Einstein’s monumental breakthrough, the greatest individual intellectual achievement of the twentieth century. A dramatic human story of an epic quest, The Hunt for Vulcan offers insight into how science really advances (as opposed to the way we’re taught about it in school) and how the best work of the greatest scientists reveals an artist’s sensibility. Opening a new window onto our world, Levenson illuminates some of our most iconic ideas as he recounts one of the strangest episodes in the history of science. Praise for The Hunt for Vulcan “Delightful . . . a charming tale about an all-but-forgotten episode in science history.”—The Wall Street Journal “Engaging . . . At heart, this is a story about how science advances, one insight at a time. But the immediacy, almost romance, of Levenson’s writing makes it almost novelistic.”—The Washington Post “A well-structured, fast-paced example of exemplary science writing.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Download or read book Hunter One written by Mike Phipp and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Jet Heritage and the men who restored the first British ex-military jets back into service from their Bournemouth Hurn base.

Download or read book The Odyssey of Oceanus The Battle of Hrunting written by Joseph Apsey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the alien race known as the Vindicators bearing down on humanity, it is up to the 7th Battle Fleet Oceanus to charge the enemy in a desperate mission to destroy their military stronghold of Hrunting. Under the command of Admiral Seph Hunter, the fleet may pull through. However, against an enemy as devious as the Vindicators, victory is not assured.

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Download or read book Vampire Hunter D Volume 28: the Tiger in Winter written by Hideyuki Kikuchi and published by Dark Horse Manga. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novelization of a Japanese anime classic finds humans locked in a struggle for survival against vampires as civilization collapses and vampire slayers become powerful individuals within a new feudal social structure.