Bøger af Mark Alpert

»Denne bog minder om Da Vinci Mysteriet - blot med fysik i stedet for billedkunst.«- New York TimesEn forrygende krimi om jagten på en Einstein-teori, ingen troede fandtes, men som ikke desto mindre kan ændre verden for altid.Mark Alperts debut er en af årets mest skarpladte bøger; Alpert formår at sammenflette videnskab, fysik, historie og politik til en besnærende cocktail og krydre det hele med et hæsblæsende tempo. Alt sammen gør denne bog til en enestående page-turner.Den midaldrende fysiklærer på Columbia University, David Swift, bliver kaldt til hospitalet for at besøge sin læremester, som har været udsat for brutal tortur af en ukendt gerningsmand. Lige inden han dør, når den gamle mand at hviske en kryptisk besked, bl.a. indeholdende ordene »Einheitliche Feldtheorie«. Teorien om alting. Teorien der kan udslette Verden. Det var Einsteins mål i livet at finde frem til en komplet forenet teori - nogle ligninger som forklarer alle fysikkens kræfter. Einstein døde inden han nåede sit mål. Eller gjorde han?Få timer efter at have hørt sin læremesters sidste ord, må David løbe for livet - på flugt fra en lejemorder så vel som FBI. Han hvirvles ind i en hæsblæsende jagt på sandheden om Einsteins teori - og dens konsekvenser. Super underholdende og top spændende!

A science professor on the run must find a lost Einstein theory—and keep it from those who might use it to destroy the universe. Don’t miss the “riveting” (Publishers Weekly) doomsday thriller that Booklist calls “a strikingly sweet-natured yet satisfyingly barbed high-tech, high-stakes adventure” in a starred review. David Swift is called to the hospital to comfort his dying mentor—a renowned scientist who’s been brutally tortured. David is shocked when the old man dies after wheezing “Einheitlichen Feldtheorie.” The Theory of Everything. It was Albert Einstein’s lifetime quest to pin down a unified set of equations that incorporated both relativity and quantum mechanics, combining the physics of stars with the laws of atoms. But Einstein never achieved this goal. Or did he? In the next two hours, David’s attacked by a Russian assassin, arrested by the FBI, and nearly killed three times. Someone is clearly trying to get their hands on the supposedly failed theory. But why? As David runs for his life, he’ll team up with his old girlfriend (who happens to be gorgeous, brilliant, and living in Einstein’s old Princeton house), another eccentric disciple of Einstein, and an autistic teenager addicted to video games, in order to work out what Einstein’s theories could possibly be worth to the powers desperate for it—and if the world is even ready for their consequences.

Adam, crippled by muscular dystrophy, and five other terminally ill teenagers sacrifice their bodies and upload their minds into weaponized robots to battle a dangerously advanced artificial intelligence program bent on destroying humanity.

SAINT JOAN OF NEW YORK is a novel about a math prodigy who becomes obsessed with discovering the Theory of Everything. Joan Cooper, a 17-year-old genius traumatized by the death of her older sister, tries to rebuild her shattered world by studying string theory and the efforts to unify the laws of physics.