Author : Paul Levinson
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ISBN 13 : 9781561780488
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Borrowed Tides by : Paul Levinson
Download or read book Borrowed Tides written by Paul Levinson and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aaron Schoenfeld has parlayed a Ph.D. in the philosophy of science and a sharp tongue into an improbable second career as director of a project to plan and execute the first interstellar voyage. The trip to Alpha Centauri will take many years and might end up being a one-way journey for the crew.His old acquaintance Jack Lumet may be the unlikely source of an answer. An anthropologist obsessed with the myths of Native Americans, he once wrote a paper about Wise Oak, an Iroquois sachem who claimed to have ridden a cosmic version of the Hudson, a tidal river that flows both ways, to the stars and back.In a world where money for space journeys is hard to come by, even a slightly mad theory that suggests a possible shortcut to the stars is an attractive possibility for the people who believe more in humanity's destiny among the stars than they do in safety considerations, minimal risks, or taking no for an answer.