TheHunt for Vulcan: How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet and Deciphered the Universe By Thomas Levenson
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Most Helpful 5 of 5 review helpful A delight By The Brother This book had quite astonishing advance publicity from classy science writers like Alan Lightman but also the marvellous Junot Diaz one of the best American novelists writing today so it seemed to deserve a chance It really does live up to the billing I had dreaded another run through Einstein s theory of general relativity but instead Levenson rewinds a centu In 1859 the brilliant scientist Urbain LeVerrier discovered that the planet Mercury has a wobble that its orbit shifts over time His explanation was that there had to be an unseen planet circling even closer to the sun He called the planet Vulcan Supported by the theories of Sir Isaac Newton the finest astronomers of their generation began to seek out Vulcan and at least a dozen reports of discovery were filed There was only one problem Vulcan does not exist Packed with colourful anecdotes this is a vivid well paced and thoroughly enjoyable tale of human delusion and ultimate scientific triumph Marcus Chown author of Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You and The Afterglow of Creation This b
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