About the book
Life in a Nuclear Magnetic Web is a science fiction story about people
from the planet Elysia in the Olympian Universe, which is located in one
of many universes far out in infinite space. Their scientists have predicted
that an asteroid 60-miles wide will hit their Elysian planet in about 125
years. King Jupiter, God of heavens and King of Gods, is sending a group
of Elysian explorers to travel to planet Earth in search of technology
that might nudge the meteor out of its present orbit. Should this plan
fail, King Jupiter could move his Elysian people to planet Earth if his
explorers find this planet a desirable place to live, and its people friendly.
King Jupiter has asked his explorers to investigate how life began
on this planet and to bring him reports on how its culture has progressed.
Is this a civilization in which nations treat their people with humanity?
He has heard about the many wars on Earth and he would like to know why.
King Jupiter would also like to know more about Earth’s geoscientist,
J. Marvin Herndon, and his new theory that the Earth’s core could be a
giant nuclear reactor fueled by uranium 235 and 238. The people on planet
Earth’s surface live above a 5-mile-wide deposit of solid uranium, which
could be the source of Earth’s magnetic field and its four million megawatts
of energy. King Jupiter wants to know if this nuclear core of uranium could
be the source of the magnetic field that shields the Earth and all life
from the solar wind. This wind from the sun is hot, ionized gas that is
made of ionized particles and is traveling at a million miles per hour.
When the solar wind hits Earth’s protective magnetic shield, some of the
sun’s electrical particles escape at Earth’s poles and this produces, on
Earth, extreme ultra-violet radiation. These particles also emit light
called the Northern and Southern lights, or “auroras,” which give people
on Earth a fantastic feeling of the infinite size and beauty of space!
The importance of the magnetic field is noted throughout this
book, for without it life could not exist on planet Earth. But this is
only one of many discoveries that King Jupiter and his Elysian scientists
make. As their vessel flies from their Olympian universe to the one of
the Milky Way, they treat the reader to an imaginative journey that spans
more than 4.5 billion years. We watch with them as the planet cools. We
see the emergence and sheltering of new life. We look on as the first bacterial
genes grow, providing the atmospheric oxygen we need to live. We stand
watching, finally, as man begins to populate the earth, and as wars begin.
Life in a Nuclear Magnetic Web is a free-wheeling fictional adventure
carried out by fictional explorers, but an adventure grounded in modern
scientific knowledge.
About the Author
Bonnie Harter brings extraordinary life experience to the pages of this
delightful science fiction adventure. An RN for the Army Air Force during
World War II, she would go on to raise six children and complete degrees
in Anthropology and in Communication. In 1964 she appeared alone before
the California State Senate Fact-finding Committee on Natural Resources.
Here she presented factual information that would result in the addition
of over 40 acres of oil-producing land, in the center of an oil field,
to the California Tideland Trust. She is passionate about politics and
world events and a voracious reader of new developments in science. In
all her work one finds an abiding commitment to the humanistic, and to
the necessity of building a world in which the interests of every individual
are represented.
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