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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.
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