Related reading —
"I closed my eyes and saw the number 137—
so very close to the reciprocal of alpha—
on the chest of the runner in Van Cortlandt Park.
Should I start the story there? "
— Alpert, Mark. Saint Joan of New York
(Science and Fiction) (p. 103).
Springer International Publishing. Kindle edition.
Cover detail:
See as well St. Joan in this journal.
"Alpert, an editor for Scientific American , laces his high-IQ
doomsday thriller with clearly explicated and hauntingly beautiful
scientific theories…."
Booklist on The Omega Theory :
"Alpert’s follow-up to his acclaimed first novel, Final Theory (2008),
continues the adventures of science historian David Swift."
See as well this journal on June 1, 2008.
. . . Pace Wallace Stevens.
"The history of the universe can thus be seen as
an endless chain of changes, but Aquinas argued
that there must be some transcendent entity that
initiated the chain, something that is itself
unchanging and that already possesses all of the
properties that worldly objects can come to possess.
He also claimed that this entity must be eternal;
because it is the root of all causes, nothing else
could’ve caused it. And unlike all worldly objects,
the transcendent entity is necessary—it must exist."
— Mark Alpert in Scientific American, 12/23/2019
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