Re: AKICIF: Origin of film "Sunshine"
- From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 29 Jan 2008 19:58:14 -0500
Jan Vanek jr. <jan.vanek.jr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Clarke has better science than that. He did have one novel in which
the sun's fusion power source had gone out, but the sun did not of
course suddenly stop shining -- it would take tens of thousands of
years to cool off enough to notice, and much longer for Earth to get
cold enough for its air to freeze out.
Really? Which one? I thought I knew all of ACC, but don't remember
this. In The Songs of Distant Earth, Sun is discovered to become a
nova within a few hundred years.
Yes, that's the one I was thinking of. In that novel, the explanation
for why there were too few solar neutrinos detected was that the sun's
fusion power source had gone out, and that this would somehow result
in the sun going nova in a few centuries.
Fortunately, in real life it turned out that the reason why too few
solar neutrinos were detected is because most of the sun's electron
neutrinos turn into muon neutrinos or tau neutrinos before they
reach Earth.
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