Quaternion Organon

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Summary: This book is a WOW for intelligent beings
Review: In the framework of a novel, George Hamner, Jr. takes the reader on a brilliant, panoramic review of Human knowledge, seeking always to push it to a higher level. The result is a stimulation of response, first admiring the scholarship displayed and, second, testing whether such an advance in intelligence can actually be achieved.

Rating:
Summary: This book is a WOW for intelligent beings
Review: In the framework of a novel, George Hamner, Jr. takes the reader on a brilliant, panoramic review of Human knowledge, seeking always to push it to a higher level. The result is a stimulation of response, first admiring the scholarship displayed and, second, testing whether such an advance in intelligence can actually be achieved.

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Summary: Science or Fiction?
Review: Quaternion Organon reads as an odd mixture of cosmology, religion and science fiction. Often it's difficult to know what discipline to apply at any given point in the book. Marketed as a novel, it tells the story of two former high-tech engineers who, despite their now-jobless status, manage to come up with the means to purchase Harleys and ride them to a semi-magical location which has all the resources with which to begin their journey of enlightenment. We're led through the labrynths of pseudo-science, mysticism, whirling particles and exploding stars, all supposedly in pursuit of a holistic view of the universe which will doubtless put physics on the sound footing it's lacked until now.

A substantial portion of the book is devoted to the ideas of the late Dewey Larson, an engineer who attempted to develop his own theories of the workings of the universe. The choice is unfortunate, as Larson spent a good deal of effort engaging in diatribes against Einstein and comparatively little producing any real physics. Where the book perhaps disappoints most, though, is in the promise of its title. Despite the imposing words, there is almost no discussion of quaternions and their application to physical problems. Since these mathematical constructs can be applied to relativity theory, one is left wishing that the author devote a bit more than a half-page out of a total of nearly 450.

Still, the book may inspire some readers, at least, to delve a bit deeper into the development of relativity theory, cosmology, or mysticism, or possibly all three.