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Radiation Sequence:
"And we’ve got no help at all from the stars because they’re all areas where the Universe is increasingly disorderly, giving off enormous amounts of radiation in strange kinds of Sun rays, and so forth-- great Sun spots, which we begin to find have some regularity. But you and I didn’t know that regularity before because, in a sense, it was so infrequent-- whatever it might be. We didn’t have observation to know there were Sun spots up to yesterday.
“Then all the physical is the visible, astronomical world where we use the optical telescope to give us the information. Optical means we’re using that disorderly radiation to identify the positioning of the stars. . . So, looking around for some phase of Universe where energies are contracting and becoming increasingly orderly, we find the only example that we really know much about is our own Earth. We do know that in the last International Geophysical Year that we’re collecting somewhere around 100 tons of stardust daily. And we’re finding our radiation from all the stars, the cosmic radiation-- and primarily from the Sun-- is not just bouncing off our Earth at all, but being impounded as energy. The radiation to start off with is in the Van Allen belts.”
