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Book SynopsisFour hundred years after Kepler discovered his third law of planetary motion, disproving the Pythagorean notion of ‘the music of the spheres’, music was discovered in the Sun.
With this discovery the science of helioseismology was born. Just as we can see the face of a foetus in the womb via ultrasound, and as bats can ‘see’ their way around using sonar, helioseismologists can now see inside the depths of the sun simply by listening to it.
In The Music of the Sun, renowned helioseismologist William Chaplin tells the story of this discipline’s origins and gives us invaluable insight into its implications – not only for better understanding the distant sun and stars – but for cosmology, particle physics, and the very relationship between the Sun and the Earth.
Trade Review"An excellent introduction. Recommended for solar physicists and laypersons" * Choice *
Table of ContentsForeword xi
Acknowledgments xv
1 Introduction 1
2 Our Star, the Sun 11
3 How to Make a Star Ring 33
4 The Story Begins 57
5 Going Global 81
6 Early Successes 111
7 Taking in the Sun’s Rays 137
8 From Particle Physics to Cosmology 175
9 In a Spin 206
10 Getting Active – the Solar Cycle 231
11 The Present and Future 273
Index 287
