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Mark Seader's Proof of Theory follows Dr. Quinten Trent, a physicist at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, after a one-fifth-second anomaly suggests an object has lost twenty percent of its weight.
Quinten believes the reading may point to a way of interrupting gravity itself, so he turns to his best friend, computer scientist Gunjit Bir, to help him test the idea. Their private research takes them from Switzerland to Colorado, where a prototype begins attracting money and questions.
Investor Howard Cranston sees a technology worth backing, while government agencies and people operating far outside the law begin closing in. As Quinten tries to decide who can be trusted with a discovery that could transform space travel, keeping the science secret becomes as dangerous as proving it works.
Mark Seader’s Proof of Theory takes a huge scientific idea and makes the physics genuinely interesting even when the calculations get technical.
Peter Broom, AvStar’s security chief, is brilliant because his boardroom trap for CEO Martin Lamont shows exactly how dangerous he is before he ever enters Quinten’s orbit. Seader is also excellent at making the project feel as if it has grown from somewhere real. The Boulder airport lab, housed in an old Quonset hut, gives the invention a wonderfully scrappy beginning, while Tarah Sheltman’s aerospace experience makes her arrival feel like the next natural step in what Quinten and Gunjit are building.
Dorothy, Quinten’s mother, adds another side to him entirely because her faith reaches a son who has always understood the universe through numbers. Well written and immersive, readers who enjoy science fiction built around believable technology will adore this book.What I have learned from this book is that our observations of the world can help drive great discoveries, and the powerful mathematical formulas behind them can help us transform our world.
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