Critical Account of Scientific Reading

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Heelen Shah 11.E                AS Science in the Public Understanding Coursework

Critical Account of Scientific Reading.

Title: “Sunstorm” (A Time Odyssey: Book 2)

Author: Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter.

Chapter and Page Numbers: Chapter 6 (Forecast) Pages 29 -32

                                      Chapter 8 (Recovery) Pages 41 – 44

                                      Chapter 18 (Announcement) Pages 105 – 123

Book published: Great Britain, Year 2005.

Book Edition:    I used the 2006 Book edition. 

                                   

Overview of the Book:

“Sunstorm” is a book based on an epic account on human epochal struggle to survive and a revelation of human place in a dangerous universe. In the year 2037, the Sun flares. Suddenly, the human high-technology civilisation seems terribly vulnerable. They recover. They re-build Earth, but this is just the precursor. In April 2042, in just five years, the sun will flare once more.

But this time, the sun will hurl out in one day the energy it would normally spend in a year. This time nothing on Earth will survive. As plans are drawn up to save the extinction of man-kind, as all Earth’s resources are mobilised for one unimaginable engineering effort, one question rages: Why now?

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The science involved in “Sunstorm”:

Science is used in this book to portray the high-technology world being hit by a major solar event which occurs on June 9th 2037, disrupting virtually all of the earth's electronic hardware. Dramatic as it is, this phenomenon is only a minor precursor of a far more massive solar eruption about five years off. Scientific models of the projected 2042 event make clear that the Earth will be sterilized completely by the upcoming solar burst. Eurasia, United States of America and China have less than five years to build a 30,000 kilometer layer ...

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