Science Found in Books!

        Time and time again, it has been proven that science can be found everywhere! You just have to look for it.  A few days ago, I finished reading a book by the name of The Tomorrow Code by Brian Falkner and when I thought about what I should write about for this part of the extra credit, I immediately knew that I could blog about this book.  The Tomorrow Code is a riveting story about three teenagers trying to solve the mystery of messages coming from the future.  The book starts out simple enough with two of the main characters, Rebecca and Tane, just sitting in a park, debating about time travel and communications from the future.  Rebecca, a math and science prodigy, tells Tane that even if they were able to send messages to a different time, they would only be able to send things backward, not forward since the future hasn't happened yet.  This  sprouts an interesting idea in Tane.  He wonders if the people in the future are sending messages to their time and if that would mean that if they built a receiver and just listened, they could receive a signal from the future.  Soon enough, Rebecca, showing interest in Tane's idea, goes to the local university to meet Professor Barnes with Tane.  This visit, planned  so that the two friends could get their hands on a CD full of live feeds from BATSE, a detector of gamma-rays, was successful.  Obviously, this is where the book started to get very scientific.  The information on the CD is only a series of ones and zeros, but they discover that it's in Morse code.  As they uncover the hidden message the CD contains, they see that it has Lotto numbers on it.  To be sure, they check the last week's draw and are ecstatic when they find out that their guess was correct!  Also, they see that the message is signed with "TR" and they think that it stands for Tane and Rebecca.  They tell Tane's older brother, Harley, who's nickname is Fatboy, all about their discovery so that he can help them get the money for the Lotto draw.  However, there is still more of the message to be uncovered and so Rebecca and Tane get to work on that.  Next, they find that the message is extremely cryptic.  Part of it says, "BUYSUBEONTLS."  They assume that it means that they should buy a certain submarine using their Lotto money.  After this, they fall into a fast paced adventure that is full of interesting information.  Giant, white, foggy antibodies start appearing in New Zealand and are wiping out the human race.  Antibodies are things that exist so that they can destroy an infection.  Rebecca thinks that humans are the pathogens, dangerous things that antibodies try to smother.  Meanwhile, New Zealand is in uproar.  People are trying to flee, however, this will not make a difference.  At the end of the book, Tane and Rebecca escape and hide out in their submarine.  They decide to change the messages so that they could send messages that were more clear so that no one would have to die.  
        The Tomorrow Code is definitely a must read book that incorporates a lot of science in it.  Science can be many things.  It can be anything from health and medicine to space and time travel.  I think it is extremely interesting to think about humans in a way that portrays us as a disease.  This book had a lot of scientific concepts in it.  It was very easy to find science in this book since it was a major part of it.  However, even other books that seem to be completely non-related to science can be shown to have some part of science in it.  Science is a vast subject and even if you think you don't like it, you might find something you like about it.  Basically, I think that science can be found everywhere from just outside your door to a book like The Tomorrow Code.