Nature's third cycle: a story of sunspots/

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The cycle of day and night and the cycle of seasons are two familiar natural cycles around which many human activities are organized. But is there a third natural cycle of importance for us humans? On 13 March 1989, six million people in Canada went without electricity for many hours: a large explos...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arnab Rai Choudhuri
Format: Printed Book
Published: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Sunspots-Popular works.
Sunspots.
Online Access:https://books.google.co.in/books?id=B-eZBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Nature%27s+third+cycle+by+Arnab&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKrczPk_HTAhVLMI8KHRLdAX0Q6AEIJTAA#v=onepage&q=Nature%27s%20third%20cycle%20by%20Arnab&f=false
Table of Contents:
  • Explosions, blackouts and cycles
  • The mysterious sunspots
  • Here comes the Sun
  • The fourth state of matter
  • Floating magnetic buoys
  • Dynamos in the sky
  • The conveyor belt inside the Sun
  • A journey from the Sun to the Earth
  • We look before and adter
  • Epilogue: Dynamos are forever.

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