Title Weird Astronomical Theories of the Solar System and Beyond Author(s) Seargent, David Publication Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2016. Description XIV, 270 p. 43 illus., 32 illus. in color : online resource Abstract Note 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 astronomical understanding is still evolving.??Unconventional approaches have also pushed our scientific understanding for the better, as with R.W. Mandl's approaching Einstein with regard to gravitational lensing.?? Even without full substantiation (and some theories are hardly credible), their hypotheses allow for a new perspective on??how the Solar System became what it is today ISBN,Price 9783319252957 Keyword(s) 1. ASTRONOMY 2. Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology 3. ASTROPHYSICS 4. EBOOK 5. EBOOK - SPRINGER 6. Evolutionary Biology 7. Popular Science in Astronomy Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I10096     On Shelf