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by Earl R. Milton (Author), Alfred De Grazia (Author)
Let's think of the possibility of another history for the solar system, making it a short one, positing the Sun as one-time partner in a binary star system - this was the challenge that Earl Milton and Alfred de Grazia set to themselves when they got to work on Solaria Binaria. The dynamic model which they came up with is electromagnetic, non-gravitational, and requires only a million years for the life-time of the binary. Comparative and logical analysis argues not only a recent origin of the binary, but also the disruption of the binary beginning at a time when self-aware humans emerged. Hence, early myths and legends, and also fragments of ancient history are found to support expectations about the natural behavior of the binary system. The speed of astrophysical, geological, and biological processes is so great that a concept of rapid, sudden, comprehensive change is preferred - the concept of quantavolution.
Author Biography
Alfred de Grazia was born December 29, 1919 in Chicago. He had a PhD in Political Science of University of Chicago and became a major political scientist of his generation, authoring over thirty books in the field. He taught at University of Minnesota, Brown University, Stanford University and New York University, and others, both in the US and abroad. He was a pioneer in various fields, including digital archiving, as early as the 1960s. He created the magazine The American Behavioral Scientist. He authored some twenty more books in fields as varied as ancient history, catastrophism - which he calls quantavolution - American history, autobiography and poetry. As a young man, he had a remarkable military career in OSS in WWII. He died on July 13, 2014, in France.
