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Death of the Sun
Jyril
post Jun 20 2006, 03:39 PM
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Stapledon's book is badly outdated in the scientific sense.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.


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post Jun 20 2006, 03:55 PM
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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


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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,
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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."

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post Jun 21 2006, 02:36 AM
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QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jun 20 2006, 08:55 AM) *
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.


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post Jul 16 2006, 12:32 PM
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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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