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Since I have a mathematical background I thought it would be of interest to comment on the second half of Mr. Plichta's book. Some of the other reviewers have already expressed an opinion on the first half of his book which deals with chemistry and nuclear physics. In general the maths is sound and Mr. Plichta has shown a remarkable ability to spot patterns in seemingly unrelated phenomena. His observation that the temperature of absolute zero, the siderial period of the moon and the constant 4-pi divided by pi all being variations on 2732 is remarkable, and just one of many numerical coincidences he has spotted. His cross of prime numbers to modulo 24 is quite delightful, and the sort of thing that Leonard Euler would have enjoyed. It is clear that Mr.Plichta enjoys his subject and whilst he is sometimes difficult to follow, this is true of most technical books. The author clearly has an original mind, and has written an entertaining book, and included some considerable mathematical insight.

I have a considerable amount of education in basic chemistry, advanced mathematics, advanced physics...plus more liberal arts than most scientific types ever wanted to brag about. But more important, I have also spent much time studying the Bible. All this is prerequisite for understanding what Plichta is trying to say. All Bible students are aware of the masterfully artistic numeric symbolism that is characteristic of its Author: God. The use of numbers in the Bible suggests that its Author (circa. 1700-400 B.C.) has a peculiarly intimate familiarity with the fundamental order and design of the universe that we experience--which we are only just recently discovering here at the cutting edge of modern science. For example, if you separate visible light into its component colors (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet) you will notice that there are seven and they are fundamental to our experience of nature. Then, if you wrap them into a triangle (three sided figure), you get the well known (to an artist) three primary colors (Red, Yellow, Blue) on the corners of the triangle. The secondary ones go on the sides, with one side a duality, Indigo/Violet. An artist knows the how to use this triangle to properly mix colors. Now the exciting part. The Author of the Bible uses metaphors, such as light, to reveal Himself to us; then it says He is a three-part composite unity (Father/Son/H.S.) and has a seven-fold spirit (Ezekiel, Daniel, Revelations)! Is it possible that the authors could have known such fundamental facts of science? Could they have known about the three quarks that make up each of the three subatomic particles? How about the eleven or so dimensions in string theory (Judas was one of the twelve, or sort of)? (For the less learned, a wiseman in the book of Job suggests that God suspends the earth on nothing!) Not all these topics are covered in this book but there are some very interesting ones. What Plichta needs two or three more volumes to explain is that the natural world that we struggle to understand is a medium that tries to reflect, by its order and design, the glory of God, just as an ocean tries to reflect the beauty of a setting sun. If I could speak for Plichta, this book is better geared for the more learned, scientific community who can fill in the vast gaps with little immediate effort. "You will eat by the sweat of your brow...." The problem is that that community lacks any serious interest in God. Good book, for those who need it.

This book by Dr. Plichta is the wave of the future presented today. Scientists are finding about God more than they ever did in the past. "God is back" as this book declares. It is a combination of biography and scientific findings narrated in a fiction like text. The scientists will find it too simplified and the ordinary reader will find it too complicated unless he/she has a good background in Chemistry and Mathematics. Dr. Plichta 's findings in this book and his others confirm what has been already discovered about 19 years before him. In the book, "The Authorized English translation of the Quran" by Dr. Khalifa, from Amazon.com , the author made the same conclusion that Dr. Plichta discovered 19 years later. Specifically appendix 38 declares that number 19 is the signature of the Creator. It goes into the details of the mathematical miracle of the Quran that is built on number 19. Dr. Plichta in this book concludes that our universe is built on primary numbers with number 19 being the king of these primary numbers. As chemistry-student, he had noticed that each earthly life is built on 19 left-built amino acids, just as the Hamlet Shakespeare is composed also from only nineteen consonants. Then the scientist found out that from 81 natural occurring stable elements of the chemistry, nineteen are pure isotopes. He found out that the number of the double isotopes is also 19. There are further thirty-eight or 2 x 19 elements with even atomic numbers, which are multiple-isotopes with the isotope numbers 3,4,5 .... Dr. Plichta presents a wide variety of his discoveries and findings in an interesting fashion. He tried to get down to "God's Secret Formula". He believes he found it. The book however could have been presented in a more scientific format and down to the point. The details of the life of Dr. Plichta that was forced on the reader in many chapters were unnecessary and actually took away some of the value of this book. In general the book is very interesting and worth the time and money.

I am not a mathematician, but I could definately understand this book. The fact that a great deal of it was autobiographical was helpful for me in seeing the process that Dr. Plichta went through to reach his conclusions. I may not actually be a mathematician, but I am fascinated by the subject and enjoy seeing it delved into in the orderly fashion that Dr. Plichta used. In fact, I teach secondary math in a special ed program, so seldom need to go past algebra and basic geometry (thank-goodness, as I am hard pressed to remember the calculus I took over 10 years ago), but I was able to share some of the interesting patterns and convergences that Plichta uses to expound upon the Prime Number Code with my students and they also enjoyed it. I think one of the greatest strengths of this book is that Plichta comes from a well-rounded background (part of why I appreciated the autobiographical content), rather then a purely analytical, mathematical slant. I was able to understand his presentation of the material. In all, I would highly recommend this book, even to those that are a touch math phobic. It is intriguing, easy to read and gave me lots to think about.

The book is essentially an autobiography of Dr. Peter Plichta's life as a scientist, and how he branched from his primary interest in pure chemistry into physical chemisty, biochemistry, nuclear chemistry, pharmacology, and theoritical physics, and the connections he made progressively along the way between biological phenomena, and natural and physical laws.

For example, Plichta sites that there are 19 "left-oriented" amino acids, and one "right-oriented" one which comprise the building blocks for every protien that exists in every living organism. There are also, out of the 81 stable, non-radioactive elements, 20 elements that have a single isotope - 19 have odd molecular numbers and 1 has an even molecular number. He also draws a connection between the inverse square law of gravitation force (ie as objects get more distant their mutual gravitational attraction decreases as an inverse square of that distance - 1/r^2) and the fact that in the first four orbital layers that electrons exist around atoms, there's a squaring effect in that on the first layer (closest to the atom), one pair exists, on the second four, on the third nine, and on the fourth 16. He makes continuous inferences to the abundance of three's found in nature and also the 3+1 configuration. Another interesting pattern that repeats itself is that of the number 273. Absolute zero is -273 degrees Celsius, 273 is also the number of days in the term of a human pregnancy and each lunar month is 27.3 days. He hints at the significance os prime numbers but halfway through the book has not linked them to any of these other connections per se. Plichta even ventures into planetary science by making the point that the moon is not a sattelite at all, but rather twin planet - since it was formed from part of the earth and not simply captured as a completely foreign body as with the moons of the gas giants. I suppose this would complement his patterns of threes and 3+1(or 4)'s as the earth would alternate between being the 3rd planet and the fourth depending on what part of the orbit the moon was in.

What made this such a hard book to put down is that Plichta does not put all his cards down on the table in the first chapter or even in the first half of the book, but strings the reader along with fascinating connections like the ones above in addition to the continuous recountings of how his discoveries and enlightenments progressed, and how his knowledge increased and enabled him to make these connections.

From only reading half the book, his thesis seems to be something akin to the idea that all these connections, these dualities, and patterns that are repeated uncannily throughout the
biological, chemical, physical, and even linguistic and psychological worlds could not have been mere coincidence and so are good grounds for positing the existance of a conscious designer of physical laws and biological entities and in particular human beings. Someone or something that understood how numbers work and could create these patterns and connections at will.

There is a good deal of technical information in the book, mostly about chemistry, which, though some is explained, is not "dumbed down." This adds to the impression that Plichta is addressing his readers as competant thinkers. This is fortunate because a great deal of the autobiographical detail in this book, though perhaps factually 100% correct, sometimes gives one the impression that Plichta is a bit too taken with his intellect.

I am not a scientist by trade or hobby, though I have taken limited studies in physics and chemistry. I would recommend this book to those with a layman's interest in science and perhaps to true scientists as well.