Primordial Star
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: March 19, 2009
Place of publication: Victoria, B.C., Canada
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9781425188504
Table of contents: title: PART ONE; title: IN THE BEGINNING; title: Chapter 1  Ab Origine; title: Planet Formation___________________________________1; title: Further Problems with Circumstellar Disks_____________3; title: The Plasma Ejection Model__________________________5; title: Earth's Primordial Sub-Brown Host____________________7; title: A Dimmer Sun______________________________________10; title: The Proto-Saturnian Primary_________________________12; title: Chapter 2  Geogenesis; title: The Pre-Biotic Soup________________________________15; title: The Ultraviolet Environment_________________________17; title: Phylogenetic Memory_______________________________19; title: Insect Eyes________________________________________20; title: Ultraviolet Reflection_______________________________22; title: Of Harm and Benefit________________________________25; title: The Colors of the Universe__________________________27; title: The Purple Earth___________________________________31; title: Chapter 3  Geognosy; title: The Stratified Signature of Catastrophe_______________33; title: Coal Seams_________________________________________42; title: Cosmic Precipitation________________________________48; title: Carbon Stars________________________________________50; title: Planetary Hydrocarbons______________________________54; title: The Origin of Petroleum______________________________56; title: Rains of Naphtha____________________________________62; title: The Rancho La Brea Tar Sands________________________65; title: Chapter 4  Stellar Flares; title: The Antics of SN1987A_______________________________71; title: Electric Discharges__________________________________73; title: Cellular Plasma______________________________________75; title: Multiple Supernovae_________________________________79; title: The Evolving Nature of Brown Dwarf Stars______________80; title: Hazards of Life Beneath a Brown Dwarf Star____________82; title: PART TWO; title: REVOLUTIONS; title: Chapter 5  A Thumbnail History of Gigantism; title: Those Terrible Lizards___________________________________________88; title: The Endothermic Controversy_____________________________________90; title: The Origin of Birds: An Unsettled Question___________________________94; title: Scales Versus Feathers_________________________________________101; title: Preservation versus Age________________________________________110; title: Giants on the Wing____________________________________________111; title: Wings on the Wind____________________________________________114; title: The Megasaurs_______________________________________________117; title: Weight-Lifting Power__________________________________________122; title: Attenuated Gravity____________________________________________127; title: Shrinking Homo______________________________________________128; title: The Ups and Downs of Gigantism_________________________________132; title: The Roche Limit______________________________________________134; title: Chapter 6  Mass and Gravity; title: The Shrinking Earth____________________________________________140; title: The Expanding Earth___________________________________________141; title: The Pros and Cons of Earth Expansion_____________________________145; title: Terrestrial Gravitational Anomalies_________________________________147; title: Spatial Gravitational Anomalies___________________________________150; title: Repulsive Gravity______________________________________________158; title: The Gravitational Constant_______________________________________161; title: Electromagnetism Versus Gravity__________________________________162; title: Sub-Atomic Dipolarity__________________________________________166; title: Changes in Electrical Potential____________________________________167; title: A Change in Mass_____________________________________________168; title: Objections Raised and Overruled__________________________________169; title: Chapter 7  Sudden Violence; title: Survival of the Fortunate_________________________________________175; title: Eradication of the Hapless________________________________________177; title: The Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary_________________________________178; title: Catastrophism Wins the Day______________________________________180; title: Proposed Causes______________________________________________188; title: The Deccan traps and Vulcan's Role________________________________190; title: Appeals to Plate Tectonics_______________________________________192; title: The Impact Theory_____________________________________________194; title: The Iridium Layer______________________________________________196; title: Osmium Lends its Weight________________________________________198; title: Worldwide Fire_______________________________________________200; title: The Search for the Crater_______________________________________201; title: Chicxulub____________________________________________________203; title: Chapter 8  Paradigms Lost; title: The Great Dyings______________________________________________207; title: Periodicity of Extinctions: Pros and Cons___________________________214; title: Nemesis, the Milky Way, and Planet X_____________________________215; title: Disparity Among Intellects: The Great Debate_______________________217; title: Cosmic Ray Bombardment_______________________________________227; title: The Supernova Challenge_______________________________________228; title: The Proto-Saturnian Solution_____________________________________234; title: The Polar Dinosaurs____________________________________________251; title: Wrapping Up_________________________________________________256; title: PART THREE; title: THE TOROIDS; title: Chapter 9  Celestial Bands; title: Epochal Ice: Resetting the Stage___________________________________260; title: Ice-Shy Latitudes______________________________________________264; title: Further Evidence______________________________________________266; title: The Sub-Star Predicament_______________________________________268; title: Terrestrial Rings_______________________________________________273; title: Hooker's Chilling Belt___________________________________________281; title: The Tell-Tale Zone_____________________________________________285; title: Chapter 10  Dusty Rings; title: The Auroras__________________________________________________287; title: The Terella Experiments_________________________________________291; title: The Auroral Ovals_____________________________________________294; title: Land of Eternal Shadow_________________________________________296; title: Disparities Resolved____________________________________________305; title: Toroidal Extremities____________________________________________307; title: Chapter 11  Earth's Southern Pole; title: Tropical Glaciers______________________________________________311; title: The East Antarctic Anomaly_____________________________________316; title: Clearer Evidence from West Antarctica____________________________319; title: The Southern Oval____________________________________________322; title: Chapter 12  Plasma And All That; title: Thermally Incommensurate Planets______________________________323; title: Plasmaspheric Shapes_________________________________________324; title: Resolving the Antarctic Dilemma_________________________________333; title: Earth's Dusty Burden__________________________________________337; title: The Tell-Tale Signature_______________________________________339; title: In Conclusion________________________________________________340; title: Epilogue; title: Life's Origin_________________________________________________343; title: Interplanetary Discharges_____________________________________345; title: Evolutionary Mutations_______________________________________348; title: Our Chaotic Neighborhood____________________________________352; title: Strangers in a Foreign Galaxy__________________________________355; title: Index; title: A to Z_____________________________________________________359