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Rejuvenating the Sun and Avoiding Other Global Catastrophes
Martin Beech
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Description for Rejuvenating the Sun and Avoiding Other Global Catastrophes
Paperback. Canadian academic Martin Beech has written a text that crosses the line between science fiction and science fact. Put simply, his book details a method that just might be able to stop the Sun from losing its power and, ultimately, save humanity and the Earth itself. Series: Astronomers' Universe. Num Pages: 240 pages, 40 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 343.
This book is about an audacious idea: asteroengineering—literally, the physical engineering of a star, especially the star we call our Sun. It is an idea on the grandest of scales. Part science fiction, part science fact, asteroengineering is a response to a very definite and a very real problem, a problem that our distant descendants will one day have to face. It is also a universal problem that will be experienced – at some stage or other – by every extraterr- trial civilization that has or will exist. Indeed, the problem to be addressed resides within the parent stars of ... Read more
This book is about an audacious idea: asteroengineering—literally, the physical engineering of a star, especially the star we call our Sun. It is an idea on the grandest of scales. Part science fiction, part science fact, asteroengineering is a response to a very definite and a very real problem, a problem that our distant descendants will one day have to face. It is also a universal problem that will be experienced – at some stage or other – by every extraterr- trial civilization that has or will exist. Indeed, the problem to be addressed resides within the parent stars of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Astronomers' Universe
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9780387681283
SKU
V9780387681283
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About Martin Beech
Associate professor of astronomy, and Head of the Astronomy Department at Campion College, The University of Regina. My main research interests during the past decade have focused on the smaller objects within the solar system (comets, asteroids and meteoroids), but concomitant to this I have continued to perform research related to the structure and evolution of stars (the area of ... Read more
Reviews for Rejuvenating the Sun and Avoiding Other Global Catastrophes
From the reviews: "In this book based on several of his previously published scientific articles, Beech … investigates the idea that the evolution of the sun can be controlled. … the book offers much fascinating material on extraterrestrial life and provides an interesting discussion of why extraterrestrials have never visited Earth. … Each chapter ends ... Read more