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Author(s): Arnab Rai Choudhuri
ISBN(s): 9780199674756, 0199674752
Edition: 1
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Year: 2015
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0199674752 
ISBN 13: 9780199674756
Author: Arnab Rai Choudhuri

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 explosion on the sun was discovered as the cause of this blackout. Such explosions occur above sunspots, dark features on the surface of the Sun that have been observed through telescopes since the time of Galileo. The number of sunspots has been found to wax and wane over a period of 11 years. Although this cycle was discovered less than two centuries ago, it is becoming increasingly important for us as human society becomes more dependent on technology. For nearly a century after its discovery, the cause of the sunspot cycle remained completely shrouded in mystery. The 1908 discovery of strong magnetic fields in sunspots made it clear that the 11-year cycle is the magnetic cycle of the sun. It is only during the last few decades that major developments in plasma physics have at last given us the clue to the origins of the cycle and how the large explosions affecting the earth arise. Nature’s Third Cycle discusses the fascinating science behind the sunspot cycle, and gives an insider’s perspective of this cutting-edge scientific research from one of the leaders of the field.

Nature s Third Cycle A Story of Sunspots 1st Table of contents:

1 Explosions, Blackouts and Cycles

1.1 Explosions on the Sun
1.2 A Recurring Cosmic Illness
1.3 Nature’s Third Cycle
1.4 The Magnetic Breakthrough
1.5 A Timeline

2 The Mysterious Sunspots

2.1 Sunspots Reveal the Sun’s Rotation
2.2 The Little Ice Age
2.3 The Solar Butterflies
2.4 The Solar Magnets
2.5 The Central Dogma
2.6 A Road Map

3 Here Comes the Sun

3.1 Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
3.2 The Structure of Stars
3.3 Peeping into the Interior of the Sun
3.4 How Will the Sun Die?
3.5 Neutrinos: Mysterious Messengers from the Sun’s Core
3.6 The Vibrating Sun
3.7 Rotation Rate of the Sun’s Interior
3.8 A Postscript

4 The Fourth State of Matter

4.1 An Electromagnetic Interlude
4.2 What is a Plasma?
4.3 The Reality of Fields
4.4 Making Little Suns in Our Laboratories
4.5 Coils, Magnetic Flux and Electromagnetic Induction
4.6 Plasmas and Flux Freezing
4.7 A Part of the Central Dogma Explained
4.8 A Turning Point in Our Journey

5 Floating Magnetic Buoys

5.1 Boiling a Magnetic Field
5.2 Simulating the Physical World on Our Computers
5.3 Magnetic Buoyancy
5.4 A Personal Note
5.5 Flux Rings and the Coriolis Force
5.6 Back to the Homeland
5.7 Joy’s Law Explained
5.8 Quo Vadis?

6 Dynamos in the Sky

6.1 Breaking the Symmetry with Turbulence
6.2 Parker’s Turbulent Dynamo
6.3 The Oeuvre from East Germany
6.4 The End of the Road?

7 The Conveyor Belt inside the Sun

7.1 The Death of Sunspots and the Aftermath
7.2 The Missing Link: A Mysterious Flow
7.3 The Flux Transport Dynamo Model
7.4 A Critique of the Flux Transport Dynamo

8 A Journey from the Sun to the Earth

8.1 Strange Connections
8.2 The Beautiful Corona and a Wind from it
8.3 Bones of the Corona and the Secret of Heating
8.4 When Magnetic Field Lines Swap Partners
8.5 Arrivals at the Station Earth
8.6 A Grand Landscape

9 We Look Before and After

9.1 What the Trees and the Ice Tell Us
9.2 Blow Hot and Blow Cold
9.3 Searching for Correlations
9.4 Gearing Up for the Challenge
9.5 The Die is Cast
9.6 The Verdict from the Sun-God
9.7 Jerks in the Conveyor Belt
9.8 A Human Tailpiece

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