Initial Conditions, by T. K. Flor
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Initial Conditions, by T. K. Flor
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Initial Conditions is a contemporary novel about love, career, family and science. It’s a story of a young woman who follows her dreams, makes choices, and faces the consequences. When Danielle Meller starts to work for professor George Green, she expects the new job will jumpstart her academic career. Soon enough, she discovers that integrating herself in the competitive group is a constant struggle. It is even harder to convince her boss that she is capable of conducting innovative research in theoretical physics. Danielle is fascinated by the recently discovered dark energy – it entices her imagination and draws her to explore its origins. A battle of wills ensues when Green stops her attempts to go beyond the assigned research. Danielle’s boyfriend, Jonathan, also warns her against taking unnecessary risks. Headstrong and ambitious, she doesn’t back off – until she inadvertently opens a personal and professional Pandora’s Box. Now, Danielle has to face the price of following her dreams – if she fails, she might lose the man she loves and everything she has worked for.
Initial Conditions, by T. K. Flor- Amazon Sales Rank: #4431428 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-03
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .88" w x 5.50" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 350 pages
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Excellent novel of physics, people, and relationships By Joseph M Pimbley T. K. Flor’s "Initial Conditions" is a great novel because the story is appealing on several levels. At the beginning, the main character has just finished a Ph.D. in the theoretical physics discipline of cosmology and is beginning a post-doctoral (“post-doc”), temporary work assignment far removed from her family and boyfriend. She must acclimate herself to a new personal, intellectual, and physical environment while self-imposing much (excessive?) career pressure.All of the physics and academic aspects of "Initial Conditions" are highly authentic. Thus, the book is a pleasure to read for those who have lived these conditions and also serves as a window to this world for the great majority who have not sampled the physics post-doc world. As the setting for a novel, Flor’s work is unique! It’s likely I’ll never read another novel that features the amazing text "Numerical Recipes" or speaks at length about debugging and increasing execution speed of C code! The physics in this novel is almost entirely “real.” The critical dénouement of one of the physics story lines references an actual paper from the "Cargèse Lectures in Physics" of more than 40 years ago.But "Initial Conditions" is not just physics – and that’s the point. Physics and academia provide the background for a multi-threaded story of people, relationships, human nature, clashing and changing goals, and love through several generations. The reader will appreciate and remember the conflicts and the resolution among the numerous characters. I recommend "Initial Conditions" to everybody – not just the scientists!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. An engaging and interesting story about ambition, academia, and love By Winifred What I really liked about Initial Conditions was its portrayal of a young woman trying to make her way in theoretical physics, working as a post-doc at a university. The professors are too self-absorbed and committed to their own theories to listen to her. She’s forced to do tedious work she doesn’t believe in, and she relentlessly does this work to the point that it harms her health. Mostly she writes code for computer models which have questionable validity since the universe is far too complex to be modeled without drastically simplifying it. Ever since the financial collapse of 2008, one would think we would have learned not to trust computer models of complex systems, but clearly we haven’t. I totally believe this portrayal of a physics department that’s primarily focused on writing grants. Danielle also has issues with her boyfriend, who is not only equally overworked but rarely in one city any length of time. So their relationship takes place mostly on the phone, often with the boyfriend working on his computer at the same time he’s talking to her.This human side of the story I found truthful and captivating. But I had a hard time getting into the book. There are a lot of proofreading errors, and for me there was a bit too much physics. I respect the way the story is based on physics as it’s understood now rather than stretching into the realm of science fiction, but Flor seems to think a reader needs a lot of background in order to understand the story. This results in huge info dumps at the beginning of the book. I’m actually interested in physics, but I didn’t want to hear about all the particles that make up the Standard Model when Danielle was being snubbed and ridiculed. And I thought the snubbing and ridicule could easily be understood without knowing much of anything about the Standard Model. Some of the physics is necessary, since Danielle is so passionate about it, and in the second half of the book, I think Flor achieves a better balance between the science and the story, maybe because the science is shown more through Danielle’s eyes as she sees swirling snowflakes as swirling galaxies. So once you get past the slow beginning, it becomes an engaging and interesting story about ambition, academia, and love.I was given a copy for this honest review.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. An inspiring book! By bruno This, dear readers, is an inspiring book.As a former student of physics engineering, I can easily relate to the sometimes horrifyingly high expectations workers in the field of physics are subject to, and I also happen to have a keen interest in recent discoveries. As a direct result, Initial Conditions was a read which had me scrambling enthusiastically to catch up to the epic assault on the unknown that our heroic physicists all over the world are engaged in. I enjoyed this book more than I should have. I think many others will too.This book was very well written but somewhat sabotaged by slow pacing and a relatively undramatic climax. This might be my fault, of course; it seems that most books nowadays center on epic or apocalyptic events with cataclysmic climaxes galore. If their books aren’t good enough, why not put aliens in there somewhere to spice things up – that’s your average indie sci-fi author’s mentality. In a genre where the scope and scale of events are outrageous, one risks becoming desensitized and undervaluing more grounded stories.Initial Conditions isn’t the abovementioned kind of book and I respect the author’s decision in this; this book, as she so clearly warns, is not quite a sci-fi but instead a serious work of fiction revolving around science. It also appears to have been properly edited and, aside the somewhat excessive use of adjectives in dialogue attribution, it is beautifully written.In all, this is not a book for everyone but still a very worthwhile read for anyone who, like me, identifies with the subject matter and academic life in general.Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book for a fair, honest and non-reciprocal review.
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