Although space and time are metaphysical concepts, they are treated as physical entities since Einstein’s relativity came to dominate physics thinking. Two of the terms that are often confused in physics are space and time. As an anthropologist who has studied linguistics, I am conscious of the way language is used in science. Among these notable physicists are Fritjof Capra and David Bohm who essentially said that modern physics is more similar to Eastern mysticism than Western Science. Some physicists have admitted that the physics enterprise is now more mysticism than science. Hence the book is about epistemology (how we know what we know), primarily focusing on language and logic as ways of knowing. However, in reading Modern Physics, I have become more and more critical of the approach it uses, and I believe that the methodology used is unscientific and tends toward metaphysics and mysticism. As a retired professor of anthropology who has a strong interest in the philosophy of science, I am now pursuing a life-long interest in physics. Stith's ( Redshift Rendezvous) initial picture of disaster and some of his speculations on alien societies are intriguing, but the cliched and predictable actions of his main characters make for a dreary read.This article is a summary of a book which I have published as an Amazon Kindle book. On finding that the ``plain'' they occupy is actually part of a giant ship, the expedition attempts to contact its crew. In one such city, the expedition learns, the inhabitants have all committed suicide.
An expedition to some of the other cities, led by masterful army officer Matt Sheehan and young computer genius Bobby Joe Brewster, discovers evidence that the municipalities are transported just before disaster strikes their home planets. Civil authorities, led by the city's first black woman mayor, strive to maintain order in the face of panic and the exhortations of a religious fanatic, while techies and scientists try to find out what has occurred. In the distance lie similarly transported communities, of alien origin.
In this somewhat old-fashioned hard SF novel, aliens abruptly wrap the island of Manhattan in a cocoon, move it through space and plop it-lock, stock and populace-in the middle of an extensive plain.
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