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The Deep Hot Biosphere
The Myth of Fossil Fuels
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ISBN-13:
9780387985466
Veröffentl:
1998
Erscheinungsdatum:
06.11.1998
Seiten:
262
Autor:
Thomas Gold
Gewicht:
562 g
Format:
247x165x27 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
No other book comes even close to proposing that there is a huge mass of life living within the earth, that it is sustained in its sunless and airless subterranean environment by hydrocarbons, and that those hydrocarbons--natural gas and petroleum--are not fossil fuels but a primordial basic component of our planet and the universe.
Foreword by Freeman Dyson; (1) Our Garden of Eden; (2) Life at the Borders; (3) The Deep-Earth Gas Theory; (4) Evidence for Deep-Earth Gas; (5) Resolviong the Petroleum Paradox; (6) The Siljan Experiment; (7) Extending the Theory; (8) Rethinking Earthquakes; (9) The Origin of Life; (10) What Next? // Notes // Acknowledgments // Index
Does there exist, deep within the earth's crust, a second biosphere-composed of very primitive, thermophilic (heat-loving) bacteria, and containing more living matter than the entire surface? This idea, first proposed by the author in the early 1980s, is now supported by a growing body of evidence. The implications are astonishing: is the deep biosphere where life originated? Can Mars and other seemingly dead planets contain deep biospheres? Is there yet another-deeper, hotter-biosphere within the earth, based on silicon instead of carbon? This is the first book to explore this very controversial, intriguing theory.