Author: Conrad Halling
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New Science Books
These are science books I’m interested in reading. Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes, by Clive Oppenheimer. University of Chicago Press, September 2023. See this review, Ready to Rumble by Tim Flannery in the New York Review of Books. The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and…
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Orbital Mechanics
As part of relearning calculus and physics, I want to explore and master orbital mechanics. I have an idea for a science fiction story in which the world building involves two Earth-like planets that revolve around each other (technically, around their barycenter, which would be located roughly between the two planets). When I took physics…