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Nature's Third Cycle: A Story of Sunspots
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 exp...
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Oxford, United Kingdom
Oxford University Press
2015
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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 after
- Epilogue: Dynamos are forever.