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To me that was just a miracle. That has been my position with science ever since. Excited, I took the book home that night and opened it before dinner-an action that I expect prompted my mother to feel my forehead and ask if I was all right-and, starting with the first page, I read. And hereБЂ™s the thing. It wasnБЂ™t exciting at all. It wasnБЂ™t actually altogether comprehensible. Above all, it didnБЂ™t answer any of the questions that the illustration stirred up in a normal inquiring mind: How did we end up with a Sun in the middle of our planet? And if it is burning away down there, why isnБЂ™t the ground under our feet hot to the touch? And why isnБЂ™t the rest of the interior melting-or is it? And when the core at last burns itself out, will some of the Earth slump into the void, leaving a giant sinkhole on the surface? And how do you know this? How did you figure it out? But the author was strangely silent on such details-indeed, silent on everything but anticlines, synclines, axial faults, and the like ...»