We Need to Talk about Kelvin by Marcus Chown

Author:Marcus Chown [Marcus Chown]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571255542
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2009-03-12T16:00:00+00:00

Further reading:

Home Is Where the Wind Blows by Fred Hoyle (University Science Books, Sausalito, California, 1994).

Supernovae and Nucleosynthesis by David Arnett (Princeton University Press, 1996).

PART THREE

What the Everyday World Is Telling You about the Universe

7

The Unutterable Feebleness of Starlight

How darkness at night appears to be telling us there was a beginning to time but is actually telling us something quite different

‘If the stars are other suns having the same nature as our sun, why do not these suns collectively outdistance our sun in brilliance?’

Johannes Kepler (Conversations with the Starry Messenger, 1610)

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