The Hunt for Vulcan Book Reviews

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Great book on science history. Fascinating read, really helps the reader appreciate the genius of Newton and Einstein, as well as the human weakness from which they were not exempt.

The Hunt for a more Perfect Knowledge. Science, more specifically the process of scientific inquiry, has been the subject of contentious debate over the course of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Many do not truly understand the Scientific Process in detail, and at worse are delusion about what the expected outcome of any inquiry should be. They miss something else, just how feedback and revision is built into the very process itself. So, they “do their own research,” not even beginning to realize all that word implies. The formal definition aside, the scientific method allows us to perpetually pursue a more perfect knowledge. That journey is fraught with false starts, revisions, and new “miraculous” findings. This book uses the example of the hunt for a once thought of planet Vulcan and its ultimate dismissal not to show the faults in the scientific process but to highlight how it brings us to a more perfect knowledge with every cycle of research, analysis, and published work. It takes us along for the ride with the most brilliant and diligent minds; showing us how even they stumbled along the way. There are a couple of entries in the texts that artfully summarize the conflicting nuance of the scientific process more precisely. In one instance we must accept that like scientific discoveries “… not everyone follows a straight course to the person they might become.” Likewise, every discovery “… is subject to question, to challenge, to refutation.” The only certainty being that adhering to the rigor over a long enough timeline will pay off. You just may not be around to see it.

Utterly fascinating!. This is the riveting story of the search for and "discovery" of something that never existed. The process was driven by past accomplishments, ego, power, and an apparently overwhelming desire for one's own work (and the work of a legendary scientist) to be validated. I hear echoes of this cautionary tale in the financially and politically charged science issues of the present. The author quickly captured and held my interest as he related the events which spanned a period of more than 200 years. He also presented the pertinent ideas in Einstein's Theory of Relativity in a such a respectful, plain language manner that even I could (almost!) understand them. Highly recommended!

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