书目名称 | Weird Astronomical Theories of the Solar System and Beyond | 编辑 | David Seargent | 视频video | | 概述 | Covers a variety of unconventional theories about the formation of the Solar System, the introduction of life on Earth, the nature of comets, and more.Maintains an approachable, informal and non-techn | 丛书名称 | Astronomers‘ Universe | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | After addressing strange cosmological hypotheses in Weird Universe, David Seargent tackles the no-less bizarre theories closer to home. Alternate views on the Solar System‘s formation, comet composition, and the evolution of life on Earth are only some of the topics he addresses in this new work. Although these ideas exist on the fringe of mainstream astronomy, they can still shed light on the origins of life and the evolution of the planets. Continuing the author‘s series of books popularizing strange astronomy facts and knowledge, .Weird Astronomical Theories .presents an approachable exploration of the still mysterious questions about the origin of comets, the pattern of mass extinctions on Earth, and more. The alternative theories discussed here do not come from untrained amateurs. The scientists whose work is covered includes the mid-20th century Russian S. K. Vsekhsvyatskii, cosmologist Max Tegmark, British astronomers Victor Clube and William Napier, and American Tom Van Flandern, a specialist in celestial mechanics who held a variety of unusual beliefs about the possibility of intelligent life having come from elsewhere. Despite being outliers, their work reveals how much a | 出版日期 | Book 2016 | 关键词 | Clube and Napier catastrophist hypothesis; Comets as electrical phenomena; Max Tegmark theory of math | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25295-7 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-25293-3 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-25295-7Series ISSN 1614-659X Series E-ISSN 2197-6651 | issn_series | 1614-659X | copyright | Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 |
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