Understanding the Sun and Solar System Plasmas Future Directions in Solar and Space Physics (2004) / Chapter Skim
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Further and More Abundant Knowledge
Further and More Abundant Knowledge
Pages 37-40
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A lbert Einstein once paraphrased an old Chinese proverb and wrote, "What does a fish know FURTHER about the water in which he swims all his life? " For most of human history, the sea of space, through which our home planet and other solar system bodies travel as they orbit about the AND MORE Sun, was a mystery, the subject of myth and of philosophical as well scientific speculation.
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C R E D I T S F O R I L L U S T R A T I O N S Cover The background photo is of the aurora borealis as viewed from the vicinity of Fairbanks, Alaska. The three figures in the inset show the magnetically structured plasma of the Sun's million-degree corona (left)
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Page 27 Hubble Space Telescope image courtesy of J.T. Clarke (Boston University)
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