Death of the Sun |
Death of the Sun |
Jun 20 2006, 03:39 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 249 Joined: 11-June 05 From: Finland (62°14′N 25°44′E) Member No.: 408 |
Stapledon's book is badly outdated in the scientific sense. Of course, that doesn't mean that it isn't excellent book.
For non-fiction books on our planet's future, The Life and Death of Planet Earth, by Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee is excellent if not frustratingly pessimistic view of our planet's future. -------------------- The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
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Jun 20 2006, 03:55 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
I also recommend this book:
Adams, Fred; Gregory Laughlin (2000). The Five Ages of the Universe: Inside the Physics of Eternity. Simon & Schuster Australia. ISBN 0684865769. The death of the Sun is just the mere starting off point for how far this work examines the Ultimate End of Everything. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jun 21 2006, 02:36 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
I also recommend this book: Adams, Fred; Gregory Laughlin (2000). The Five Ages of the Universe: Inside the Physics of Eternity. Simon & Schuster Australia. ISBN 0684865769. The death of the Sun is just the mere starting off point for how far this work examines the Ultimate End of Everything. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe As always, thought-provoking...thanks, ljk4-1! Speaking skeptically in order to examine core assumptions, I do have to wonder about all these apparent tie-ins between information theory and avant-gard cosmology; is there some sort of fundamental attribution error at work here? After all, IT is the vanguard scientific discipline of our civilization right now, so it is tempting to frame other problems exclusively in this context. Conversely, our daily Newtonian physics seems to be the manifest result of inherent statistical determinism derived from quantum randomness (taken to an infinite limit of samples); does IT provide similar constraints in these models? This would, in my opinion, serve as the touchstone for theoretical rigor. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jul 16 2006, 12:32 PM
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Dublin Correspondent Group: Admin Posts: 1799 Joined: 28-March 05 From: Celbridge, Ireland Member No.: 220 |
A very interesting paper that explains the scale of a supernova explosion in terms that are quite easy to grasp
Why factor 1,000,000 sunblock is inadequate if your star goes supernova. |
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