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ASTRONOMERS UNIVERSE WEIRD ASTRONOMICAL THEOR...

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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